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Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS)
Because of exposure to a wide range of chemical contaminants such as nitrate via potable water resources, the use of the approaches to set standards for drinking water quality and also to do a risk assessment is necessary for maintaining the public health. High levels of nitrate in drinking water ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31799130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2019.07.024 |
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author | Shalyari, Naseh Alinejad, Abdolazim Hashemi, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh RadFard, Majid Dehghani, Mansooreh |
author_facet | Shalyari, Naseh Alinejad, Abdolazim Hashemi, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh RadFard, Majid Dehghani, Mansooreh |
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description | Because of exposure to a wide range of chemical contaminants such as nitrate via potable water resources, the use of the approaches to set standards for drinking water quality and also to do a risk assessment is necessary for maintaining the public health. High levels of nitrate in drinking water can have adverse health effects; primarily for infants and pregnant women. So, the present study aimed to the assessment of nitrate health risk in drinking water resources of the Iranshahr city, Sistan and Baluchistan province and also, evaluation of the uncertainty of nitrate and the probability of contamination occurrence by Monte-Carlo Simulation (MCS) technique. Besides, the geographic information system (Arc GIS, Ver 10.3) was applied to mapping the nitrate concentration in groundwater resources of the studied area. For these aims, the numbers of 66 samples were collected from rural groundwater resources, and nitrate concentration was measured using a Spectrophotometer in wavelength of 220 nm. According to the results, the nitrate concentration was in the range of 6.49 mg/L, and its average level was 6.15 mg/L. Also, the simulation results with 90% confidence showed that the hazard equitant (HQ) in the infant groups, children-teenagers and adults was less than 0.331, 0.311, 0.312, and 0.3, respectively. |
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spelling | pubmed-68816582019-12-03 Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) Shalyari, Naseh Alinejad, Abdolazim Hashemi, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh RadFard, Majid Dehghani, Mansooreh MethodsX Environmental Science Because of exposure to a wide range of chemical contaminants such as nitrate via potable water resources, the use of the approaches to set standards for drinking water quality and also to do a risk assessment is necessary for maintaining the public health. High levels of nitrate in drinking water can have adverse health effects; primarily for infants and pregnant women. So, the present study aimed to the assessment of nitrate health risk in drinking water resources of the Iranshahr city, Sistan and Baluchistan province and also, evaluation of the uncertainty of nitrate and the probability of contamination occurrence by Monte-Carlo Simulation (MCS) technique. Besides, the geographic information system (Arc GIS, Ver 10.3) was applied to mapping the nitrate concentration in groundwater resources of the studied area. For these aims, the numbers of 66 samples were collected from rural groundwater resources, and nitrate concentration was measured using a Spectrophotometer in wavelength of 220 nm. According to the results, the nitrate concentration was in the range of 6.49 mg/L, and its average level was 6.15 mg/L. Also, the simulation results with 90% confidence showed that the hazard equitant (HQ) in the infant groups, children-teenagers and adults was less than 0.331, 0.311, 0.312, and 0.3, respectively. Elsevier 2019-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6881658/ /pubmed/31799130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2019.07.024 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Environmental Science Shalyari, Naseh Alinejad, Abdolazim Hashemi, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh RadFard, Majid Dehghani, Mansooreh Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) |
title | Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) |
title_full | Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) |
title_fullStr | Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) |
title_full_unstemmed | Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) |
title_short | Health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of Iranshahr using Monte Carlo simulation and geographic information system (GIS) |
title_sort | health risk assessment of nitrate in groundwater resources of iranshahr using monte carlo simulation and geographic information system (gis) |
topic | Environmental Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31799130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2019.07.024 |
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