Arsenic Water Resources Contamination

Addresses the challenges posed by global mass poisoning from arsenic water contamination
Synthesizes research in environmental sciences, management, sustainability, public health and policy
Presents case studies in Bangladesh and India to discuss prediction models and policy recommendations for mitigating arsenic contamination

Autorentext

Ali Fares is the Interim Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Sponsored Programs and Professor of Water Security at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He is currently the editor of the Water Security Book Series and edited two books. In addition, he published 14 book chapters, over 20 conference proceedings, and over 74 articles in peer reviewed journals. His research interests include disaster preparedness and resiliency, flood prediction and mitigation, water security, water-energy-food nexus, watershed hydrology and management, water allocation, irrigation management, and adaptation and mitigation of climate variability. Dr. Sushant Singh is the lead artificial intelligence and machine learning scientist in the Department of Health, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa Corporation, New York. He earned two PhD degrees: one in Environmental Science from India and another in Environmental Management in the US. He authored more than 30 peer reviewed journal articles, two books, three book chapters, two conference proceedings, one encyclopedia entry, and over 25 international presentations. His research interests include the application of artificial intelligence in health, insurance, life sciences, and environmental sustainability.

Inhalt
Chapter1: Groundwater arsenic contamination and availability of safe water for drinking in Middle Ganga Plain in India.- Chapter2: Geomorphic controls on spatial arsenic distribution in aquifers of the Brahmaputra River floodplains.- Chapter3: Reductive dissolution of Fe-oxyhydroxides a potential mechanism for arsenic release into groundwater in the alluvial plain of river Brahmaputra.- Chapter4: Sources of arsenic exposure in well-nourished children.- Chapter5: Environmental arsenic exposure and human health risk.- Chapter6: Sustainable arsenic mitigation: problems and prospects in India.- Chapter7: Arsenic Contamination of Soil in Relation to Water in Northeastern South Africa.- Chapter8: Arsenic contamination of India's groundwater: a review and critical analysis.- Chapter9: Biosorption of Arsenic: An Emerging Eco-technology of Arsenic Detoxification in Drinking Water.- Chapter10: Assessing and mapping human health risks due to arsenic and socioeconomic correlates for proactive arsenic mitigation.- Chapter11: Arsenic-contaminated drinking water and the associated health effects in the Shahpur block of Bihar: a case study from five villages.- Chapter12: Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mitigation in Pakistan: a case of Indus river basin.