Sir/Mem, I am a new member to this group and have started working on the arsenic pollution in the parts of West Bengal. Please if you kindly have bore hole...
Raja Ram Purohit
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Nov 1, 2001 5:49 pm
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Dear Dr. Bhattacharya: You rejected the oxidation theory without any proper study and suggested the oxyhydroxide reduction theory as the main mechanism...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Nov 4, 2001 12:59 am
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I am writing the following comments in response to your Yahoo message (# .139) regarding the issue of Arsenic contamination problem in Bangladesh and the ...
Md.Nazrul Islam
islamtuluus@...
Nov 7, 2001 4:07 am
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Dear All: Many scientists from many different countries have been working on the groundwater arsenic disaster of Bangladesh and West Bengal of India. I...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Nov 8, 2001 5:00 pm
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I can not believe these type of comments are still being made in the project / problem. The comments made by Mr Husain are completey correct and I wholly...
Ben Rees
brees@...
Nov 8, 2001 7:56 pm
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Announcement: International Workshop - Natural Arsenic In Sedimentary Aquifers - A Global Concern organizers: Prof. J. Bundschuh (INASLA, Argentina. ICE Costa...
Columbia University's Superfund Basic Research Program is pleased to announce an international conference entitled "Arsenic in Drinking Water" on Monday,...
Meredith Golden
mgolden@...
Nov 11, 2001 12:28 am
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If Mr. Nazrul Islam is a geologist and if he does not have working experience in dealing with groundwater contamination projects, he may conduct a comparative...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Nov 13, 2001 4:47 pm
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Dear all, We are interested in finding the best field test kit for the measurement of arsenic (should measure from 0.050 mg/L and above). Can you give us some...
Anitha Sharma, Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, Nepal has been using 40 test kits developed by AIIPHH (All India Institute of Public Health and...
Amrit Neku
aneku@...
Nov 15, 2001 1:22 pm
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Apyron also sells a test kit, which is very user friendly. Sherry Odom Director of Communications Apyron Technologies 4030-F Pleasantdale Road Atlanta, GA,...
Sherry Odom
slodom@...
Nov 16, 2001 3:15 pm
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I find the arguments on the issue of Arseni crisis in Wes Bengal intriguing. I am proud to be part of such a group. I would like to ask members to tone down...
Scientists are divided regarding the source and the mechanism responsible for releasing arsenic into the groundwater of Bangladesh. One group supports the ...
S.M. Rahman
rsaydur@...
Nov 18, 2001 3:20 pm
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Dear all, While preparing a field-campaign, I am searching for a kit or a method, which allows to analyze the arsenic speciations As(III) and As(V) in field. ...
Dear Dr. Prosun Bhattacharya, Dr.Aftab Alam Khan, Dr.Badrul Imam, and Dr.Gunnar Jacks: You have collected and analyzed soil and groundwater data regarding the...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Nov 22, 2001 5:13 pm
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At low pH values (4<pH<7), As(V) is retained on an anion exchange resin, while As(III) is not. Therefore, you can split a sample. Keep one part for total As...
Tom Holm
tomholm@...
Nov 26, 2001 7:04 pm
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There are a small number of procedures that can be used for arsenic speciation in the field. I suggest the papers by Ficklin, AWWA and Clifford. The newer...
Please find at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arsenic-source/files/Nepal-Chitrakar-Neku-Scenario-As-Drinking-Water a copy of recent paper entitled, "The...
Amrit Neku
aneku@...
Dec 7, 2001 1:13 am
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An international conference on heavy metals in the environment will be organised in Grenoble (FRANCE) from 26 May to 30 May 2003. We are actively preparing it...
Christine Echevet
echevet@...
Dec 13, 2001 3:55 am
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Dear All: We have requested Dr. Prosun Bhattacharya, Dr Aftab Alam Khan, Dr. Badrul Imam and Dr. Gunnar Jacks several times to answer and explain the following...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Dec 29, 2001 2:52 am
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Hard copies of report on Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh now available. This report is an output of studies conducted by the British...
Rodney Dyer
r-dyer@...
Jan 6, 2002 5:59 am
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Reply: 1. The questions raised by Meer Hussain in his e-mails dated 17 and 25 Dec 2001 have been raised before by him. Most of these points were clarified in...
SUBHRANGSU ACHARYYA
skacharyya@...
Jan 6, 2002 11:30 pm
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Dear All: Several scientists and environmentally concerned people requested me to respond to Prof. Feroz Ahmed's article that was published on June 15, 2001 in...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Jan 8, 2002 8:34 pm
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Dear All: On January 6, 2002 Dr.Subangshu Acharya in his post [to arsenic-source, see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arsenic-source/message/162 ]indicated that...
Meer Husain
meerh@...
Jan 13, 2002 10:02 pm
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LAST CALL FOR INFORMATION Dear Collegues, You have been informed that the next international conference on heavy metals in the environment will be organised in...
Christine Echevet
echevet@...
Jan 18, 2002 4:38 pm
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Dear All, The arsenic problem of West Bengal surfaced in 1982. Twenty years passed. What is the present situation? Every year during January I sent to all...
School of Environment...
dcsoesju@...
Feb 1, 2002 6:19 am
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Dear Collegues, Actualy, we have more than 400 answers for participation to the heavy metals conference; This XII International Conference on heavy metals in...
Christine Echevet
echevet@...
Feb 1, 2002 8:47 pm
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Well water usually contains high levels of minerals, including fluoride. I'm curious whether fluoride levels were also checked in areas where high levels of...
Doug Cragoe
dcragoe@...
Feb 5, 2002 4:07 pm
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In reply to Doug Cragoe's question re: fluoride & arsenic [arsenic-source message #168 at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arsenic-source/message/168 ]: The...
School of Environment...
dcsoesju@...
Feb 7, 2002 4:08 am
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I would like to endorse the comments by Dr Chakraborti [at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arsenic-source/message/169 ] that fluoride is not a major issue in the...