Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater (eBook)

Satinder Ahuja, PhD, is a recognized expert in the field of chromatography and separations. As President of Ahuja Consulting, he has advised major pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Europe, and India. For the last several years, working on a pro bono basis, Dr. Ahuja has used his expertise in ultratrace analysis and separation chemistry to help solve the problem of arsenic contamination in the United States and Bangladesh. Dr. Ahuja has given lectures around the world, received numerous awards, and served on distinguished panels for the United Nations and National Science Foundation Review. He has published numerous papers and seventeen books.

Contributors.

Preface.

1. Problems and Solutions of Arsenic Contamination of
Groundwater (Satinder Ahuja).

2. Fate of Arsenic in Irrigation Water and its Potential Impact
on the Food Chain (S.M. Imamul Huq).

3. Microbial Controls on the Geochemical Behavior of Arsenic in
Groundwater Systems (Farhana S. Islam).

4. Molecular Detection of Dissimilatory Arsenate-Respiring
Bacteria in North Carolina Groundwater (Holly Oates and Bongkeun
Song).

5. Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization and
Sequestration (Kate M. Campbell and Janet G. Hering).

6. Geomicrobiology of Iron and Arsenic in Anoxic Sediments
(Carolina Reyes, Jonathan R. Lloyd, and Chad W. Saltikov).

7. Development of Measurement Technologies for the Low-Cost,
Reliable, Rapid, On-Site Determination of Arsenic Compounds in
Water (Julian F. Tyson).

8. Field Test Kits for Arsenic: Evaluation in Terms of
Sensitivity, Reliability, Applicability, and Cost (Jörg
Feldmann and Pascal Salaün).

9. Mucilage of Opuntia ficus-indica for Use as a Flocculant of
Suspended Particulates and Arsenic (Kevin A. Young, Thomas Pichler,
Alessandro Anzalone, and Norma Alcantar).

10. Prediction of Arsenic Removal by Adsorptive Media:
Comparison of Field and Laboratory Studies (Malcolm Siegel Alicia
Aragon, Hongting Zhao, Shuguang Deng, Melody Nocon, and Malynda
Aragon).

11. Arsenic Remediation of Bangladesh Drinking Water Using Iron
Oxide-Coated Coal Ash (Ashok Gadgil, Lara Gundel, and
Christina Galitsky).

12. Development of a Simple Arsenic Filter for Groundwater of
Bangladesh Based on a Composite Iron Matrix (Abul Hussam and Abul
K.M. Munir).

13. Community-Based Well-Head Arsenic Removal Units in Remote
Villages of West Bengal, India (Sudipta Sarkar, Anirban Gupta, Lee
M. Blaney, J. E. Greenleaf, Debabrata Ghosh, Ranjan K. Biswas, and
Arup K. SenGupta).

14. Water Supply Technologies for Arsenic Mitigation (M. Feroze
Ahmed).

15. Solutions of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater (Satinder
Ahuja).

Index.

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