Arsenic contamination of groundwater and its health impact on residents in a village in West Bengal, India

• Main Authors: Rahman Mohammad Mahmudur (Author), Sengupta Mrinal Kumar (Author), Ahamed Sad (Author), Chowdhury Uttam Kumar (Author), Lodh Dilip (Author), Hossain Amir (Author), Das Bhaskar (Author), Roy Niladri (Author), Saha Kshitish Chandra (Author), Palit Shyamal Kanti (Author), Chakraborti Dipankar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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An in-depth study was carried out in Rajapur, an arsenic-affected village in West Bengal, India, to determine the degree of groundwater contamination with arsenic and the impact of this contamination on residents. The flow injection hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (FI-HG-AAS) metho...