• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1076978
Corpus ID: 996748

Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh

@article{Harvey2002ArsenicMA,
  title={Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh},
  author={C. Harvey and C. H. Swartz and A. B. M. Badruzzaman and Nicole Keon-Blute and Winston Yu and M. A. Ali and J. Jay and R. Beckie and V. Niedan and D. Brabander and Peter M. Oates and Khandaker N. Ashfaque and S. Islam and H. Hemond and M. Ahmed},
  journal={Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={298},
  pages={1602 - 1606}
}

C. Harvey, C. H. Swartz, +12 authors M. Ahmed

Published 2002

Environmental Science, Medicine

Science

High levels of arsenic in well water are causing widespread poisoning in Bangladesh. In a typical aquifer in southern Bangladesh, chemical data imply that arsenic mobilization is associated with recent inflow of carbon. High concentrations of radiocarbon-young methane indicate that young carbon has driven recent biogeochemical processes, and irrigation pumping is sufficient to have drawn water to the depth where dissolved arsenic is at a maximum. The results of field injection of molasses… CONTINUE READING

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