Monitoring of metal pollution in waterways across Bangladesh and ecological and public health implications of pollution

Kibria, Golam; Hossain, Mohammad Mosharraf; Mallick, Debbrota; Lau, Tai‐Chu; Wu, Rudolf S.S.

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.08.121

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“…Of course, those industries have high effluent discharges." The findings of Kibria et al (2016) conform to the counter frame of yard officials and DoE officials, in that they show that sites that contain only shipbreaking industries observe less pollutant concentration than sites that contain other industries including shipbreaking. The high-impact sites are observed in Dhaka, with four of the seven heavy metals having higher concentration, whereas shipbreaking sites only observe one heavy metal, Cadmium (Cd), beyond threshold.…”

Section: Environmental Pollution: Inclusion and Exclusion Politicsmentioning

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Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry

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Shipbreaking in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh supplies metal to meet the needs of the nation's construction sector. The shipbreaking industry has received international attention for environmental contamination and workers' insecurity. However, these issues have been framed without considering the actors that produce them and their associated motives. This paper illuminates the conflicting discourses regarding the industry between two divergent groups of actors. On the one hand, national and international NGOs collaborate to enforce a discourse focused on negative localized impacts. On the other hand, yard owners, yard workers, and local community members forge a counter discourse, focused on positive localized impacts and raising doubts about the origin of the environmental pollutants and occupational standards setting. National and international actors have so far missed the conflicting perspective of workers, yard owners, locals and NGOs. We contend that these divergent discourses involve scalar politics, with one discursive frame focused on localized impacts in order to leverage global resources, while the other situates local communities in the global world system; this confounding of scale leads to ineffective policy formulation. This shipbreaking case study provides a valuable lesson on the importance of listening to and including stakeholders at multiple scales when seeking policies to address localized impacts of a globalized industry.

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Section: Environmental Pollution: Inclusion and Exclusion Politicsmentioning

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Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry

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“…The article mainly focused on this causes of water pollution. G. Kibria et al [9] published a research article about the Buriganga river water pollution causes and consequences. The author mainly focused on the river water pollution due to waste disposal and industrial pollution.…”

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Sources and causes of water pollution in Bangladesh: A technical overview

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Mallik²

2017

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Water pollution is one of the significant dangers to general wellbeing of Bangladesh. Drinking water quality is inadequately overseen and checked. Bangladesh positions at number 86 among 142 countries with respect to drinking water quality. Drinking water sources, both surface and groundwater are debased with coliforms, harmful metals and pesticides all through the nation. Different drinking water quality parameters set by WHO are every now and again damaged. Human wastes, transfer of civil and mechanical wastes and aimless use of agrochemicals in agribusiness are the principle factors affecting the water quality. Microbial and substance contaminations are the primary elements work solely or in mix for different general medical issues. This paper presents a detailed layout of water quality in Bangladesh with unique inflection on significant poisons, sources and causes of pollution. The information introduced in this paper are extracted from different surveys and reports distributed in national and global journals; likewise reports discharged by the government and NGO associations are incorporated.

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“…Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a relatively high density with an atomic weight greater than 20 (Kibria et al 2010). They fall under the category of persistent bioaccumulative chemicals, and some of them are endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic (Kibria et al 2016).…”

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Assessment of two persistent bioaccumulative toxicants in the UNESCO protected river of Osun-Osogbo, Nigeria

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Introduction: Osun River dissecting the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, though inscribed on the World Heritage List, has been rarely assessed for biodiversity values or ecotoxicology. In this study, we investigated the concentrations of Cu and Zn in the benthic sediments and two dominant gastropod species (Melanoides tuberculata and Lanistes varicus) of the Osun River. Benthic sediment and gastropod samples were collected on quarterly basis from June 2015 to March 2016 along the longitudinal stretch of the river. Dry samples were digested and analysed for Cu and Zn using the atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Results: With the exception of September sampling period, the two metals recorded higher values in the animals than in the sediments. Cu (1.23 ± 0.81 μg/g) was much lower (p < 0.01) than zinc (6.29 ± 2.15 μg/g) in the benthic sediments. In the same vein, Cu was significantly lower (p < 0.01) than Zn in both species. Both metals recorded much lower values than their average concentrations in the Earth's crust as well as the recommended limits for freshwater life. Comparatively, L. varicus recorded higher bioaccumulation factor than M. tuberculata. Conclusions: Findings from this study suggest that both metals posed no toxicological risk to the freshwater system of Osun River. Concentrations of both metals in the sediments as well as their accumulation factors in both gastropod species were indicative of an unimpacted freshwater system.

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Monitoring of metal pollution in waterways across Bangladesh and ecological and public health implications of pollution

Cited by 110 publications

References 16 publications

Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry

Uncovering Discursive Framings of the Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry

Sources and causes of water pollution in Bangladesh: A technical overview

Assessment of two persistent bioaccumulative toxicants in the UNESCO protected river of Osun-Osogbo, Nigeria

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