1. Edition - October 2008
145.- Euro
2008. 388 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-14447-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-14447-3 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
Arsenic contamination has become a global phenomenon and with the development of advanced technological detection tools, more affected geographical areas have been identified. This book offers an assessment of environmental health risks and economic impacts, and the technologies available for dealing with the problem. Written in a straightforward style, it is designed to update knowledge on the dynamics of natural arsenic from the aquifers through groundwater to the food chain and outlines efficient techniques for arsenic removal and aims to increase awareness of the problem by administrators, policy makers and company executives.

From the contents
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.