Arsenic exposure through groundwater to the rural and urban population in the Allahabad-Kanpur track in the upper Ganga plain

Abstract

This preliminary study reports for the first time that part of the rural population in the Allahabad district and the urban population in the Suklaganj-Kanpur of Unnao district in the Allahabad-Kanpur track of the upper Ganga plain are drinking and using for agricultural irrigation arsenic contaminated water (maximum arsenic concentrations in drinking water and urine are 707 and 1744 microg L(-1) respectively) mostly from shallow hand tube-wells (depth 7.5-40 m) without knowing that these are arsenic contaminated.

Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater in the Middle Gangetic Plain, India: Its Relations to Fluvial Geomorphology and Quaternary Stratigraphy

“…Arsenic contamination in groundwater above 50 μg/L is reported in Shapur, Dhokra, Lilapur, Malikpur, Fathupur villages of Allahabad district in UP (Chakraborti et al 2009 ). Moreover, As contamination >50 μg/L has been reported in the Unnao district of UP in the Suklaganj-Kanpur urban areas and Purani Bazar, Misra Colony, Rishi Nagar, Ananda Nagar, Subash Gram, Kanchan Nagar villages.…”

“…Moreover, As contamination >50 μg/L has been reported in the Unnao district of UP in the Suklaganj-Kanpur urban areas and Purani Bazar, Misra Colony, Rishi Nagar, Ananda Nagar, Subash Gram, Kanchan Nagar villages. These locations are close to the entrenched (Chakraborti et al 2009 ) and most of them are located within the depth of 30 m. However, the temporal variation of As concentrations in Ghazipur district are greater in the pre-monsoon than that of the post-monsoon season (Ahamed et al 2006 ;Kumar et al 2010a ;Yano et al 2012 ). Lakhimpur Kheri district of UP lies in Terai region along the Himalayan foothills.…”

Fate of over 480 million inhabitants living in arsenic and fluoride endemic Indian districts: Magnitude, health, socio-economic effects and mitigation approaches

“…Asian countries is primarily observed in the floodplains of Newer Alluvium (Holocene) of rivers originated from the Himalayan Mountains [4]. In 1976, groundwater arsenic contamination in Chandigarh and some areas in Punjab of North India were first reported from India [5].…”

Geochemistry and mobilization of arsenic in Shuklaganj area of Kanpur–Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, India

“…In the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, few investigations have been carried out on the distribution of arsenic contamination (Nickson et al 2007;Chauhan et al 2009;Chakraborti et al 2009;Kumar et al 2010). However, the mechanism of release of arsenic in Kanpur district is still unexplored.…”