Arsenic Water Resources Contamination: Challenges and Solutions

Description

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by arsenic water contamination. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue, and proposes solutions to aquatic contamination through a multi-disciplinary lens and case studies from Bangladesh and India. The book may serve as a reference to environment and sustainability researchers, students and policy makers. Part one of the book describes the issue of arsenic contamination in ground water and river basins, including its source and distribution in specific locations in India. Part two explains the routes of exposure to environmental arsenic, its transport in aquatic ecosystems, and the health risks linked to arsenic exposure in food and the environment. Part three addresses sustainable arsenic contamination mitigation strategies and policies, the socioeconomic, demographic, cultural and psychological aspects of arsenic contamination, and the potential applications of GIS and remote sensing in providing solutions. Part four concludes by discussing the role of local and regional institutions in water resources management for a variety of issues including but not limited to arsenic contamination, and presents a case study in the Indus river basin in Pakistan to propose future contamination mitigation strategies. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Groundwater Arsenic Contamination and Availability of Safe Water for Drinking in Middle Ganga Plain in India (Sudarsan Sahu, Dipankar Saha)....Pages 1-41 Geomorphic Controls on Spatial Arsenic Distribution in Aquifers of the Brahmaputra River Floodplains (Runti Choudhury, Chandan Mahanta, Pallavi Sharma, Shirishkumar M. Baviskar)....Pages 43-53 Reductive Dissolution of Fe-oxyhydroxides a Potential Mechanism for Arsenic Release into Groundwater in the Alluvial Plain of River Brahmaputra (Shirishkumar M. Baviskar, Runti Choudhury)....Pages 55-71 Sources of Arsenic Exposure in Well-Nourished Children (Torsak Tippairote, Weeraya Karnpanit, Dunyaporn Trachootham)....Pages 73-101 Environmental Arsenic Exposure and Human Health Risk (Anindita Mitra, Soumya Chatterjee, Dharmendra K. Gupta)....Pages 103-129 Sustainable Arsenic Mitigation: Problems and Prospects in India (Nandita Singh, Om Prakash Singh)....Pages 131-156 Arsenic Contamination of Soil in Relation to Water in Northeastern South Africa (André C. Horn, Marubini R. Ramudzuli)....Pages 157-175 Arsenic Contamination of India’s Groundwater: A Review and Critical Analysis (Aslesha Kaur Dhillon)....Pages 177-205 Biosorption of Arsenic: An Emerging Eco-technology of Arsenic Detoxification in Drinking Water (Jatindra N. Bhakta, Md M. Ali)....Pages 207-230 Assessing and Mapping Human Health Risks Due to Arsenic and Socioeconomic Correlates for Proactive Arsenic Mitigation (Sushant K. Singh, Robert W. Taylor)....Pages 231-256 Arsenic-Contaminated Drinking Water and the Associated Health Effects in the Shahpur Block of Bihar: A Case Study From Five Villages (Barun Kumar Thakur, Vijaya Gupta)....Pages 257-271 Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mitigation in Pakistan: A Case of Indus River Basin (Unaib Rabbani, Zafar Fatmi)....Pages 273-296 Back Matter ....Pages 297-305