Retardation of arsenic transport through a Pleistocene aquifer

Groundwater drawn daily from shallow alluvial sands by millions of wells over large areas of south and southeast Asia exposes an estimated population of over a hundred million people to toxic levels of arsenic1. Holocene aquifers are the source of widespread arsenic poisoning across the region2, 3....

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Main Authors: van Geen, Alexander (Author), Bostick, Benjamín C. (Author), Thi Kim Trang, Pham (Author), Lan, Vi Mai (Author), Mai, Nguyen-Ngoc (Author), Manh, Phu Dao (Author), Viet, Pham Hung (Author), Radloff, Kathleen (Author), Aziz, Zahid (Author), Mey, Jacob L. (Author), Stahl, Mason (Contributor), Harvey, Charles F. (Contributor), Oates, Peter (Author), Weinman, Beth (Author), Stengel, Caroline (Author), Frei, Felix (Author), Kipfer, Rolf (Author), Berg, Michael (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2014-09-10T20:21:27Z.
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