Risk of arsenic contamination in groundwater affecting the Ganga Alluvial Plain, India.

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LetterOpen AccessRisk of arsenic contamination in groundwater affecting the Ganga Alluvial Plain, India. Subhrangsu Kanta Acharyya, and Babar Ali Shah Subhrangsu Kanta Acharyya Search for more papers by this author and Babar Ali Shah Search for more papers by this author Published:1 January 2004https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.112-a19Cited by:17AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by Mukherjee A (2018) Groundwater Chemistry and Arsenic Enrichment of the Ganges River Basin Aquifer Systems Groundwater of South Asia, 10.1007/978-981-10-3889-1_17, (275-289), . Goel P (2018) Identification of the Source Mineral Releasing Arsenic in the Groundwater of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, India Handbook of Environmental Materials Management, 10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_129-1, (1-38), . 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