Assessment of potential health risk of major contaminants of groundwater in a densely populated agricultural area

Yang, Kun; Xie, Chenbo; Yang, Qingchun; Lei, Xiaohui; Wang, Hao

doi:10.1007/s10653-019-00470-9

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“…Similarly, the children are exposed to higher risk compared to adults. Li et al (2019) conducted an assessment of potential health risk of major contaminants in groundwater of Hebei Province in central China and reported non-carcinogenic risk values (Rn) in the order infants [ children [ adult males [ adult females and the sequence of the carcinogenic risk values (Rc) in the order adult males [ adult females [ children [ infants. Karunanidhi et al (2020a) also discussed about drinking water quality and possible health risks in the Shanmuganadhi River Basin of south India.…”

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Impact of groundwater contamination on human health

Karunanidhi¹,

Subramani

Roy

et al. 2021

Environ Geochem Health

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BackgroundGroundwater pollution is a worldwide problem with significant effects on human health and environmental security. It requires an in-depth understanding as the access to safe drinking water is a fundamental human right. The inferior quality of potable water has been deteriorating the human health and affecting the sustainable development of society. Increased urbanization and population growth in many parts of the world have exacerbated contamination of groundwater, mainly through the misuse of groundwater assets and the discharge of domestic and industrial sewage into the groundwater system. Human health is susceptible to the exposure of metal/metalloid, even at trace level, because of its persistence in the environmental media and acute toxicity.This special issue ''Impact of Groundwater Contamination on Human Health'' is a compilation of new case studies about recent advances in ground-breaking research about groundwater characteristics and groundwater modelling in different parts of the world using multidisciplinary tools to evaluate the risk on human health as well as on agricultural activities from chemical compositions and radioactivity along with other cutting edge topics like waste water management as well as microbial and heavy metal contaminations. It contains 23 different research papers from five countries (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, and Malaysia) focussing on seven different topics: (1) Hydrogeochemistry, (2) Groundwater modelling, (3) Risk assessment, (4) Radioactivity, (5) Wastewater treatment, (6) Heavy metals contamination, and (7) Microbial contamination. This editorial briefly reviewed the papers that focussed on different topics of groundwater evaluation and characterization. HydrogeochemistrySix papers of this topic represent case studies of saline water intrusion along the coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry states of south India using hydro-chemical and statistical techniques. Faizal Khan et al. (2020) reported about the mixing of seawater and

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confidence: 99%