Arsenic contamination of groundwater: a review of sources, prevalence, health risks, and strategies for mitigation

S Shankar, U Shanker, Shikha - The scientific world journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in different parts of the world is an outcome of natural
and/or anthropogenic sources, leading to adverse effects on human health and ecosystem …

Genesis of geogenic contaminated groundwater: As, F and I

Y Wang, J Li, T Ma, X Xie, Y Deng… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Chronic exposure to geogenic contaminated groundwaters (GCGs) has caused serious
health problems among billions of people worldwide. The hydrogeological features, main …

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

S Jasechko, H Seybold, D Perrone, Y Fan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Groundwater resources are vital to ecosystems and livelihoods. Excessive groundwater
withdrawals can cause groundwater levels to decline,,,,,,,,–, resulting in seawater intrusion …

A review of high arsenic groundwater in Mainland and Taiwan, China: distribution, characteristics and geochemical processes

H Guo, D Wen, Z Liu, Y Jia, Q Guo - Applied Geochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
China is a typical high-As region, where 20 provinces have high As groundwaters among 34
provinces. These groundwaters usually occur in both arid–semiarid inland basins and river …

[HTML][HTML] Groundwater hydrogeochemistry and probabilistic health risk assessment through exposure to arsenic-contaminated groundwater of Meghna floodplain …

N Saha, MS Rahman - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
A clear understanding of various hydrogeochemical processes is essential for the protection
of groundwater quality, which is a prime concern in Bangladesh. The present study deals …

Genome-resolved metagenomic analysis of groundwater: insights into arsenic mobilization in biogeochemical interaction networks

W Xiu, M Wu, SL Nixon, JR Lloyd… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-arsenic (As) groundwaters, a worldwide issue, are critically controlled by multiple
interconnected biogeochemical processes. However, there is limited information on the …

Hydrogeochemistry and arsenic contamination of groundwater in the Jianghan Plain, central China

Y Gan, Y Wang, Y Duan, Y Deng, X Guo… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Although high arsenic groundwater has been reported in the northwest of China, no data
describing groundwater arsenic in the river plains of central China have been published to …

Groundwater hydrochemical characteristics and processes along flow paths in the North China Plain

L Xing, H Guo, Y Zhan - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
The North China Plain is one of the biggest plains in China, where municipal, agricultural
and industrial water supplies are highly dependent on groundwater resources. It is crucial to …

Sedimentogenesis and hydrobiogeochemistry of high arsenic Late Pleistocene-Holocene aquifer systems

Y Wang, K Pi, S Fendorf, Y Deng, X Xie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Geogenic enrichment of arsenic (As) in groundwater has been a topic of worldwide concern
over the past several decades due to the severe health threat to an estimated over one …

Controls of organic matter bioreactivity on arsenic mobility in shallow aquifers of the Hetao Basin, PR China

H Guo, X Li, W Xiu, W He, Y Cao, D Zhang, A Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Organic matter (OM) is widely accepted to be the trigger for arsenic (As) mobilization from
sediments into groundwater. Identifications of reactivity and sources of organic matter …