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A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond

Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications of arsenic toxicity, there have been few studies to date to suggest measures that could be taken to overcome arsenic c...

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Autores principales: Yunus, Fakir Md., Khan, Safayet, Chowdhury, Priyanka, Milton, Abul Hasnat, Hussain, Sumaira, Rahman, Mahfuzar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26891310
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13020215
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author Yunus, Fakir Md.
Khan, Safayet
Chowdhury, Priyanka
Milton, Abul Hasnat
Hussain, Sumaira
Rahman, Mahfuzar
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Khan, Safayet
Chowdhury, Priyanka
Milton, Abul Hasnat
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description Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications of arsenic toxicity, there have been few studies to date to suggest measures that could be taken to overcome arsenic contamination. After the statement in 2000 WHO Bulletin that Bangladesh has been experiencing the largest mass poisoning of population in history, we researched existing literature to assess the magnitude of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. The literature reviewed related research that had been initiated and/or completed since the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) under four domains: (1) extent of arsenic contamination; (2) health consequences; (3) mitigation and technologies and (4) future directions. To this means, a review matrix was established for analysis of previous literature based on these four core domains. Our findings revealed that several high-quality research articles were produced at the beginning of the MDG period, but efforts have dwindled in recent years. Furthermore, there were only a few studies conducted that focused on developing suitable solutions for managing arsenic contamination. Although the government of Bangladesh has made its population’s access to safe drinking water a priority agenda item, there are still pockets of the population that continue to suffer from arsenic toxicity due to contaminated water supplies.
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spelling pubmed-47722352016-03-08 A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond Yunus, Fakir Md. Khan, Safayet Chowdhury, Priyanka Milton, Abul Hasnat Hussain, Sumaira Rahman, Mahfuzar Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Arsenic contamination in drinking water has a detrimental impact on human health which profoundly impairs the quality of life. Despite recognition of the adverse health implications of arsenic toxicity, there have been few studies to date to suggest measures that could be taken to overcome arsenic contamination. After the statement in 2000 WHO Bulletin that Bangladesh has been experiencing the largest mass poisoning of population in history, we researched existing literature to assess the magnitude of groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. The literature reviewed related research that had been initiated and/or completed since the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) under four domains: (1) extent of arsenic contamination; (2) health consequences; (3) mitigation and technologies and (4) future directions. To this means, a review matrix was established for analysis of previous literature based on these four core domains. Our findings revealed that several high-quality research articles were produced at the beginning of the MDG period, but efforts have dwindled in recent years. Furthermore, there were only a few studies conducted that focused on developing suitable solutions for managing arsenic contamination. Although the government of Bangladesh has made its population’s access to safe drinking water a priority agenda item, there are still pockets of the population that continue to suffer from arsenic toxicity due to contaminated water supplies. MDPI 2016-02-15 2016-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4772235/ /pubmed/26891310 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13020215 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Hussain, Sumaira
Rahman, Mahfuzar
A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond
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title_full A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond
title_fullStr A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond
title_full_unstemmed A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond
title_short A Review of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: The Millennium Development Goal Era and Beyond
title_sort review of groundwater arsenic contamination in bangladesh: the millennium development goal era and beyond
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772235/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13020215
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