Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater

A Mukherjee, P Coomar, S Sarkar… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Geogenic groundwater contaminants (GGCs) affect drinking-water availability and safety,
with up to 60% of groundwater sources in some regions contaminated by more than …

Spatial and temporal variations of groundwater arsenic in South and Southeast Asia

S Fendorf, HA Michael, A Van Geen - Science, 2010 - science.org
Over the past few decades, groundwater wells installed in rural areas throughout the major
river basins draining the Himalayas have become the main source of drinking water for tens …

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 …

Sustainability appraisal of arsenic mitigation policy innovations in West Bengal, India

S Koley - Infrastructure Asset Management, 2022 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Treatment of arsenic-contaminated shallow groundwater upon extraction has become
imperative to provide safe drinking water in remote villages in West Bengal, India. Arsenic …

The groundwater arsenic contamination in the Bengal Basin-A review in brief

A Sarkar, B Paul, GK Darbha - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of arsenic in the groundwater of the densely-populated Bengal Basin evolved
as a mass-poisoning agent and is a reason for the misery of millions of people living here …

Groundwater depletion causing reduction of baseflow triggering Ganges river summer drying

A Mukherjee, SN Bhanja, Y Wada - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In summer (pre-monsoon) of recent years, low water level among the last few decades, has
been observed in several lower Indian reaches of the Ganges (or Ganga) river (with …

Occurrence, predictors and hazards of elevated groundwater arsenic across India through field observations and regional-scale AI-based modeling

A Mukherjee, S Sarkar, M Chakraborty… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Existence of wide spread elevated concentrations of groundwater arsenic (As) across South
Asia, including India, has endangered a huge groundwater-based drinking water dependent …

Nitrate in groundwater of the United States, 1991− 2003

KR Burow, BT Nolan, MG Rupert… - … science & technology, 2010 - ACS Publications
An assessment of nitrate concentrations in groundwater in the United States indicates that
concentrations are highest in shallow, oxic groundwater beneath areas with high N inputs …

Modeling regional-scale groundwater arsenic hazard in the transboundary Ganges River Delta, India and Bangladesh: Infusing physically-based model with machine …

M Chakraborty, S Sarkar, A Mukherjee… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
For the last few decades, toxic levels of arsenic (As) in groundwater from the aquifers of the
Ganges River delta, India and Bangladesh, have been known to cause serious public health …

Recent trends in groundwater levels in a highly seasonal hydrological system: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

M Shamsudduha, RE Chandler… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2009 - hess.copernicus.org
Groundwater levels in shallow aquifers underlying Asian mega-deltas are characterized by
strong seasonal variations associated with monsoon rainfall. To resolve trend and seasonal …