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| Kunal Paul, Department of Chemistry, Texas Tech University, Memorial Circle & Boston, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061 |
| Nine districts in West Bengal, India and fifty districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization's maximum permissible limit of 50 µg/L. The area and population of 50 districts of Bangladesh and 9 districts in West Bengal are 118,849 km2 and 104.9 million and 38,865 km2 and 42.7 million, respectively. The School of Environmental Studies has been working for the last 17 years to combat this severe calamity. As a former researcher of the School of Environmental Studies, I'll discuss in brief the current situation of arsenic contamination in India and Bangladesh, chronic arsenic toxicity in this affected area, socio-economic study of arsenic affected villages, a simple household device developed by SOES to remove arsenic from groundwater and possible ways to combat the situation. |
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Occurrence, Chemistry, Toxicity and Remediation of Arsenic
1:30 PM-4:50 PM, Sunday, 26 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- B218, Oral
Division of Environmental Chemistry |