Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh: spatial mitigation planning with GIS and public participation

Hassan, M. Manzurul

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.01.008

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“…access to water for all Koraro residents was calculated. The process used was similar to that used by Hassan [35] in selection of deep well location for providing improved access to safe drinking water in Bangladesh. A geographic information system (GIS) model was used to generate service zones for existing water sources, where the service zones were buffers of 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and 2000 m around each of the water sources.…”

Section: Merging Data Collected In the Workhop With Engineering Desimentioning

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Using a Participatory Stakeholder Process to Plan Water Development in Koraro, Ethiopia

Alfredo

Montalto

Bartrand

et al. 2016

Water

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This article reports the results of a one-day participatory workshop in Koraro, Ethiopia conducted prior to major development interventions in the region. The methodology of the workshop, structured to generate data useful for understanding the physical and social systems integral to water resources planning, provides a framework for future water need explorations in similar settings in Ethiopia and elsewhere. The use of only improved water sources as a metric for access to water under-represents the situation in Koraro, as many rely on streambeds for water due to the perceived cleanliness and low salinity of this unimproved water source. The reliance on metrics common in the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, such as a minimum distance to a water source and the categorization of potable water based on type of water source, using varying figures (from as many as 30 to as few as four) can lead to assessments regarding the amount of additional sources necessary to allow access to specific locales, that are not consistent with actual need. Since the workshop, the Millennium Village Project has constructed over 30 wells in the region, following the most commonly used distance and source type metrics with less than desirable results. The water access evaluations alone do not address the needs of Koraro residents.

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Section: Merging Data Collected In the Workhop With Engineering Desimentioning

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Using a Participatory Stakeholder Process to Plan Water Development in Koraro, Ethiopia

Alfredo

Montalto

Bartrand

et al. 2016

Water

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“…World Health Organization (WHO) has observed arsenic contamination from over 70 countries affecting the health of an estimated 150 million people across the globe. This situation is alarming in Bangladesh and the eastern states of India, and WHO has called this situation as the 'worst mass poisoning' event in human history (Hassan 2005). Wang et al (1997) reported arsenic concentrations up to 880 lg/l from tubewells from the Kuitan area of Xinjiang, a city situated in the western part of China.…”

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Biotechnological advances in bioremediation of heavy metals contaminated ecosystems: an overview with special reference to phytoremediation

Mani

Kumar

2013

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The ability of heavy metals bioaccumulation to cause toxicity in biological systems-human, animals, microorganisms and plants-is an important issue for environmental health and safety. Recent biotechnological approaches for bioremediation include biomineralization (mineral synthesis by living organisms or biomaterials), biosorption (dead microbial and renewable agricultural biomass), phytostabilization (immobilization in plant roots), hyperaccumulation (exceptional metal concentration in plant shoots), dendroremediation (growing trees in polluted soils), biostimulation (stimulating living microbial population), rhizoremediation (plant and microbe), mycoremediation (stimulating living fungi/mycelial ultrafiltration), cyanoremediation (stimulating algal mass for remediation) and genoremediation (stimulating gene for remediation process). The adequate restoration of the environment requires cooperation, integration and assimilation of such biotechnological advances along with traditional and ethical wisdom to unravel the mystery of nature in the emerging field of bioremediation. This review highlights better understanding of the problems associated with the toxicity of heavy metals to the contaminated ecosystems and their viable, sustainable and eco-friendly bioremediation technologies, especially the mechanisms of phytoremediation of heavy metals along with some case studies in India and abroad. However, the challenges (biosafety assessment and genetic pollution) involved in adopting the new initiatives for cleaning-up the heavy metals-contaminated ecosystems from both ecological and greener point of view must not be ignored.

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“…Arsenic pollution has been reported recently in the USA, China, Chile, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, Poland, Canada, Hungary, New Zealand, Japan and India [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]539,[542][543][544]546,549,551,554,562,573,574] (Table 1). The largest population at risk among the 21 countries with known groundwater arsenic contamination is in Bangladesh, followed by West Bengal in India [29,14,[30][31][32].…”

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Arsenic removal from water/wastewater using adsorbents—A critical review

Mohan

Pittman

2007

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh: spatial mitigation planning with GIS and public participation

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

Using a Participatory Stakeholder Process to Plan Water Development in Koraro, Ethiopia

Using a Participatory Stakeholder Process to Plan Water Development in Koraro, Ethiopia

Biotechnological advances in bioremediation of heavy metals contaminated ecosystems: an overview with special reference to phytoremediation

Arsenic removal from water/wastewater using adsorbents—A critical review

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