Arsenic in Groundwater : Poisoning and Risk Assessment

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Dedication
 Contents
 List of Figures
 List of Tables
 Preface
 Acknowledgment
 Author
 Chapter 1: Arsenic Poisoning through Ages: Victims of Venom
 1.1 Arsenic: Terminology and History
 1.2 Arsenic Chemistry
 1.2.1 Principal Arsenic Compounds
 1.2.2 Properties of Arsenic
 1.2.3 Arsenic Analysis: Geochemical Speciation
 1.3 Arsenic Applications
 1.3.1 Homicidal and Suicidal Arsenic
 1.3.2 Medicinal Arsenic
 1.3.3 Arsenic in Industries
 1.3.4 Arsenic in Agriculture
 1.4 Arsenic in Environment
 1.4.1 Arsenic in Water. 1.4.2 Arsenic in Rocks and Soils1.4.3 Arsenic in Atmosphere
 1.4.4 Dietary Sources of Arsenic
 1.5 Mechanism of Arsenic in Groundwater
 1.6 Health Impacts of Arsenic Toxicity
 1.7 Regulation for Arsenic Exposure
 1.8 Concluding Remarks
 Chapter 2: Groundwater Arsenic Catastrophe: The Global Scenario
 2.1 Worldwide Arsenic Catastrophe
 2.2 Arsenic in Asian Countries
 2.2.1 Alluvial and Deltaic Aquifers, Bangladesh
 2.2.2 Irrawaddy Delta, Burma
 2.2.3 Mekong Delta, Cambodia
 2.2.4 Alluvial Plains, China
 2.2.5 Ganges-Brahmaputra Plain, India
 2.2.6 Kurdistan Province, Iran
 2.2.7 Japan. 2.2.8 Terai Alluvial Plain, Nepal2.2.9 Indus Alluvial Plain, Pakistan
 2.2.10 Quaternary Aquifer, Taiwan
 2.2.11 Ron Phibun, Thailand
 2.2.12 Western Anatolia, Turkey
 2.2.13 Red River Basin and Mekong Delta, Vietnam
 2.3 Arsenic in North America
 2.3.1 Canada
 2.3.2 Mexico
 2.3.3 The USA
 2.4 Arsenic in South America
 2.4.1 Chaco-Pampean Plain, Argentina
 2.4.2 Brazil
 2.4.3 Chile
 2.5 Arsenic in Europe
 2.5.1 France
 2.5.2 Germany
 2.5.3 Greece
 2.5.4 The Great Hungarian Plain
 2.5.5 Italy
 2.5.6 The Danube Basin: Romania, Slovakia, and Croatia
 2.5.7 Scandinavia. 2.5.8 Madrid and Duero Basin, Spain2.5.9 Switzerland
 2.5.10 United Kingdom
 2.6 Arsenic in Africa
 2.6.1 Burkina Faso
 2.6.2 Cameroon
 2.6.3 Ethiopia
 2.6.4 Ghana
 2.6.5 Nigeria
 2.7 Arsenic in Oceania
 2.7.1 Australia
 2.7.2 New Zealand
 2.8 Other Areas with Arsenic Contamination
 2.9 Natural Geochemical Processes of Arsenic Mechanism
 2.10 Concluding Remarks
 Chapter 3: Groundwater Arsenic Discontinuity: Spatial Mapping, Spatial Planning and Public Participation
 3.1 Spatial Characteristics: What Is Special about Spatial Analysis?
 3.2 Spatial Variability: Water Quality Investigation. 3.3 Spatial Continuity: Theories of Estimation3.3.1 Geostatistical Estimation
 3.3.2 Semivariogram Estimation
 3.3.3 Kriging Estimation
 3.3.4 Cross-Validation and Prediction Error
 3.4 Descriptive Statistics and Regression
 3.5 Attributes for Spatial Arsenic Concentration
 3.6 Groundwater Arsenic Concentrations: Pattern and Array
 3.6.1 Probabilistic Scale: How to Quantify the Pattern?
 3.6.2 Spatial Scale: What Are the Areal Discontinuity and at What Extent?
 3.6.3 Depth Scale: Which Aquifer Is Contaminated at Which Level?
 3.6.4 Spatial Variation: What Is the Possible Mechanism?