Water pollution in Bangladesh and its impact on public health

MK Hasan, A Shahriar, KU Jim - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Bangladesh–one of the most densely populated countries of the world—has plentiful water
sources, but these sources are being polluted continuously. Both surface water and …

Fecal contamination of drinking-water in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Bain, R Cronk, J Wright, H Yang, T Slaymaker… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Access to safe drinking-water is a fundamental requirement for good health and
is also a human right. Global access to safe drinking-water is monitored by WHO and …

Animal Feces Contribute to Domestic Fecal Contamination: Evidence from E. coli Measured in Water, Hands, Food, Flies, and Soil in Bangladesh

A Ercumen, AJ Pickering, LH Kwong… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fecal-oral pathogens are transmitted through complex, environmentally mediated pathways.
Sanitation interventions that isolate human feces from the environment may reduce …

Seasonal variation of fecal contamination in drinking water sources in developing countries: a systematic review

C Kostyla, R Bain, R Cronk, J Bartram - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Accounting for fecal contamination of drinking water sources is an important step in
improving monitoring of global access to safe drinking water. Fecal contamination varies …

Dissolved organic matter quality in a shallow aquifer of Bangladesh: implications for arsenic mobility

N Mladenov, Y Zheng, B Simone… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
In some high arsenic (As) groundwater systems, correlations are observed between
dissolved organic matter (DOM) and As concentrations, but in other systems, such …

[HTML][HTML] Waste-water impacts on groundwater: Cl/Br ratios and implications for arsenic pollution of groundwater in the Bengal Basin and Red River Basin, Vietnam

JM McArthur, PK Sikdar, MA Hoque… - Science of the Total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Across West Bengal and Bangladesh, concentrations of Cl in much groundwater exceed the
natural, upper limit of 10mg/L. The Cl/Br mass ratios in groundwaters range up to 2500 and …

Arsenic (III, V) adsorption on a goethite-based adsorbent in the presence of major co-existing ions: Modeling competitive adsorption consistent with spectroscopic and …

M Kanematsu, TM Young, K Fukushi, PG Green… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Adsorption of the two oxyanions, arsenate (As (V)) and arsenite (As (III)), on a common
goethite-based granular porous adsorbent is studied in the presence of major co-existing …

A review of groundwater arsenic in the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh and India: from source to sink

M Chakraborty, A Mukherjee, KM Ahmed - Current Pollution Reports, 2015 - Springer
The groundwater of the Bengal basin, in Bangladesh and West Bengal state of India, is
found to be severely polluted by non-point sourced, geogenic arsenic (As), which has been …

Comparison of fecal indicators with pathogenic bacteria and rotavirus in groundwater

AS Ferguson, AC Layton, BJ Mailloux… - Science of the Total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Groundwater is routinely analyzed for fecal indicators but direct comparisons of fecal
indicators to the presence of bacterial and viral pathogens are rare. This study was …

Exploring the potential of machine learning to understand the occurrence and health risks of haloacetic acids in a drinking water distribution system

Y Yu, MM Hossain, R Sikder, Z Qi, L Huo… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Determining the occurrence of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in drinking water distribution
system (DWDS) remains challenging. Predicting DBPs using readily available water quality …