Arsenic in the groundwater of the Upper Brahmaputra floodplain: Variability, health risks and potential impacts.
Arsenic
Brahmaputra floodplain
Hazard index
Seasonal variability
Social risk
Journal
Chemosphere
ISSN: 1879-1298
Titre abrégé: Chemosphere
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0320657
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2022
Nov 2022
Historique:
received:
28
02
2022
revised:
07
06
2022
accepted:
03
07
2022
pubmed:
11
7
2022
medline:
9
9
2022
entrez:
10
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The upper Brahmaputra floodplain (UBF) is highly enriched with geogenic contaminants, mostly the Arsenic (As), owing to its sensitive geomorphology, aquifer groundwater (GW) dynamics, huge sediment deposition along with natural and anthropogenic disturbance significantly accelerate the As leaching rate into the groundwater, leading to an increase the health risk. Concerning the above active processes in the Lakhimpur district of UBF, current work aims to investigate seasonal dynamics of As contamination and associated health hazard for local community. To carry out this study, 51 GW samples analyzed which reveal the seasonal variation in As concentrations with the minimum average concentration in the monsoon season (4.7 μg.L
Identifiants
pubmed: 35810873
pii: S0045-6535(22)02114-2
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135621
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Minerals
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Arsenic
N712M78A8G
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
135621Informations de copyright
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