A report groundwater arsenic contamination assay in the delta area of West Bengal

Swapan Kumar Biswas; Sushanta Saha

doi:10.52756/ijerr.2021.v25.008

Swapan Kumar Biswas Department of Chemistry, Sree Chaitanya College, Habra, 24-Parganas (N), West Bengal 743268, India
Sushanta Saha Department of Chemistry, Sree Chaitanya College, Habra, 24-Parganas (N), West Bengal 743268, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/ijerr.2021.v25.008

Keywords: Arsenic, delta area, pollution, toxicity

Abstract

Groundwater contaminated with arsenic adds an extra percentage of arsenic load at the time of the different irrigated processes. In an arsenic-contaminated locality, an experimental drinking water contamination study was done on tap water, pump water used for irrigation, hand pump water used for cooking, and drinking in the delta area in West Bengal, Nadia, 24-Parganas (north and south) Hooghly, Bardhaman, suspicious villages and in Kolkata, in Bengal delta.

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