Sengupta, B and Chatterjee, S and Rott, U and Kauffman, H and Bandopadhyay, A and DeGroot, W and Nag, N K and Carbonell-Barrachina, A A and Mukherjee, Surojit (2009) A simple chemical free arsenic removal method for community water supply – A case study from West Bengal, India. Environmental Pollution, 157 (12). pp. 3351-3353.
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Abstract
This report describes a simple chemical free method that was successfully used by a team of European and Indian scientists (www.qub.ac.uk/tipot) to remove arsenic (As) from groundwater in a village in West Bengal, India. Six such plants are now in operation and are being used to supply water to the local population (www.insituarsenic.org). The study was conducted in Kasimpore, a village in North 24 Parganas District, approximately 25 km from Kolkata. In all cases, total As in treated water was less than the WHO guideline value of 10 μg L−1. The plant produces no sludge and the operation cost is 1.0 US$ per day for producing 2000 L of potable water.
This work presents the chemical free arsenic removal method from groundwater and its successful implementation in West Bengal for community water supply.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | West Bengal; Chemical free treatment; Community water supply |
| Subjects: | Materials Science |
| Divisions: | Metal Extraction and Forming |
| Depositing User: | Users 5 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2010 06:00 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2012 06:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.nmlindia.org/id/eprint/658 |
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