Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Throughout China
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- 23 August 2013
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 341 (6148), 866-868
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1237484
Abstract
Arsenic and Populace: The solubility of arsenic in groundwater aquifers is controlled by a number of hydrologic and geochemical factors. In rural communities that rely on groundwater for drinking water, the risk from exposure may pose a public health threat, especially when groundwater pumping can increase arsenic solubility. In an effort to provide a focused assessment of risk to arsenic exposure from groundwater, Rodríguez-Lado et al. (p. 866 ; see the Perspective by Michael ) constructed a geostatistical model that incorporates a number of factors that control arsenic solubility across China. Most of the risk centers in a few provinces—Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Shandong, and Jiangsu—but the total population exposed to arsenic levels above 10 micrograms per liter could be upwards of 19 million people.Keywords
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