Editorial. Groundwater arsenic: From genesis to sustainable remediation

J. BUNDSCHUH; P. BHATTACHARYA; J. HOINKIS; N. KABAY; J.-S. JEAN; M.I. LITTER

WATER RESEARCH

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Año: 2010 vol. 44 p. 5511 - 5511

0043-1354

Occurrences of arsenic (As) in groundwater and its impact onmillions of individuals worldwide is a serious environmentalhealth issue. The sources of As are both natural and anthropogenicand affect different regions of the world both ona local as well as a regional scale. This special issue aims topresent a wide and multi-disciplinary coverage of themesrelated to the problem of As contamination in the environmentand the approaches that could be adopted for sustainablemitigation. These themes include: 1) arsenic in rocks,ground- and surface water: occurrence, genesis and mobility;2) arsenic remediation and mitigation: sustainable industrialscaleand emerging small-scale options; and 3) arsenic exposure,health risk assessment and other socioeconomicimpacts of mitigation.