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Bengal’s Arsenic Groundwater Crisis Explained with Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee
How does water that looks perfectly clean contain dangerous levels of arsenic? Even after decades of research and treatment technologies, why does arsenic exposure remain a drinking-water problem?
In this episode of The Water Data Podcast, hydrogeologist Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee joins host Veena Srinivasan to trace the arsenic story across the Bengal and Ganga-Brahmaputra aquifer systems.
In the conversation, Veena and Abhijit explore how arsenic naturally occurs in sediments, why the geology and geochemistry of the Bengal Delta allow it to enter groundwater, and how microbial activity, iron…
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