Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

K. Chowdhury, Ujjwal; Kumar Biswas, Bhajan; Roy Chowdhury, Tarit; Samanta, Gautam; Kumar Mandal, Badal; C. BASU, G.; Ranjan Chanda, Chitta; Lodh, Dilip; Chandra Saha, Kshitish; K Mukherjee, S; Roy, Subhashis; Kabir, S; Quamruzzaman, Quazi; Chakraborti, D.

doi:10.1289/ehp.00108393

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Groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.

Published in Environmental Health Perspectives • May 1, 2000

Authors:

Ujjwal K. Chowdhury

Bhajan Kumar Biswas

Tarit Roy Chowdhury

Abstract

Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the 9 districts in West Bengal are 92,106 km(2) and 79.9...

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West bengal

Arsenic

BENGAL

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