Arsenic exposure through groundwater to the rural and urban population in the Allahabad-Kanpur track in the upper Ganga plain
- 25 June 2009
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Environmental Monitoring
- Vol. 11 (8), 1455-1459
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b906584a
Abstract
This preliminary study reports for the first time that part of the rural population in the Allahabad district and the urban population in the Suklaganj-Kanpur of Unnao district in the Allahabad-Kanpur track of the upper Ganga plain are drinking and using for agricultural irrigation arsenic contaminated water (maximum arsenic concentrations in drinking water and urine are 707 and 1744 µg L−1 respectively) mostly from shallow hand tube-wells (depth 7.5–40 m) without knowing that these are arsenic contaminated.Keywords
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