Arsenic : natural and anthropogenic

228 Pages·2011·10.38 MB·English

by  Jörg Matschullat

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of very many, mostly unrelated works on individual aspects. This volume represents one
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of the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary examinations into arsenic’s behaviour
natural and anthropogenic
in air, water, soils, sediments, plants and the human body. Based on state-of-the-art
investigations into the global arsenic cycle, the related human toxicology and available
remediation technologies, arsenic is assessed holistically in all the environmental
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professionals working on arsenic questions not only in environmental science, but also
in the fields of environmental engineering, medicine and social science.
ARSENIC IN THE ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME 4
ISSN 1876-6218
The book series “Arsenic in the Environment” is an inter- and multidisciplinary
source of state-of-art information and an international platform for arsenic
research, making an effort to link the occurrence of geogenic arsenic in different
environments and media including ground- and surface water, soil and air, and
its effect on human society.
SERIES EDITORS
Jochen Bundschuh & Prosun Bhattacharya
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ENVIRONMENT
VOLUME 4
ARSENIC IN THE ENVIRONMENT VOLUME 4
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Arsenic in the Environment
Series Editors
Jochen Bundschuh
University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Applied Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Prosun Bhattacharya
KTH-International Groundwater Arsenic Research Group, Department of Land
and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm, Sweden
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Cover photo
The cover photo of volume 4 shows a scene from the human biomonitoring (HUBI) per-
formed in the ARSENEX project in Brazil.
Visible are tubes for the creatinine sub-samples (top), the questionnaires for the participat-
ing children and adults (center), and prepared sample stickers (bottom).
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Arsenic: Natural and anthropogenic
Editors
Eleonora Deschamps
Fundação Estadual do Meio Ambiente, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Jörg Matschullat
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
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About the book series
Although arsenic has been known as a ‘silent toxin’ since ancient times, and the contamination
of drinking water resources by geogenic arsenic was described in different locations around
the world long ago – e.g., in Argentina in 1917 – it was only two decades ago that it received
overwhelming worldwide public attention. As a consequence of the biggest arsenic calamity in
the world, which was detected more than twenty years back in Bangladesh, West Bengal, India
and other parts of Southeast Asia, there has been an exponential rise in scientific interest that
has triggered high quality research. Since then, arsenic contamination (predominantly of geo-
genic origin) of drinking water resources, soils, plants and air, the propagation of arsenic in
the food chain, the chronic effects of arsenic ingestion by humans, and their toxicological and
related public health consequences, have been described in many parts of the world, and every
year, even more new countries or regions are discovered to have arsenic problems.
Arsenic is found as a drinking water contaminant in many regions all around the world, in
both developing as well as industrialized countries. However, addressing the problem requires
different approaches which take into account the different economic and social conditions in
both country groups. It has been estimated that 200 million people worldwide are at risk from
drinking water containing high concentrations of arsenic, a number which is expected to fur-
ther increase due to the recent lowering of the limits of arsenic concentration in drinking water
to 10 μg L–1, which has already been adopted by many countries, and some authorities are even
considering decreasing this value further.
The book series “Arsenic in the Environment” is an inter- and multidisciplinary source of
information, making an effort to link the occurrence of geogenic arsenic in different environ-
ments and the potential contamination of ground and surface water, soil and air and their effect
on the human society. The series fulfills the growing interest in the worldwide arsenic issue,
which is being accompanied by stronger regulations on the permissible Maximum Contaminant
Levels (MCL) of arsenic in drinking water and food, which are being adopted not only by the
industrialized countries, but increasingly by developing countries.
The book series covers all fields of research concerning arsenic in the environment and aims
to present an integrated approach from its occurrence in rocks and mobilization into the ground-
and surface water, soil and air, its transport therein, and the pathways of arsenic introduction
into the food chain including uptake by humans. Human arsenic exposure, arsenic bioavailability,
metabolism and toxicology are treated together with related public health effects and risk assess-
ments in order to better manage the contaminated land and aquatic environments and to reduce
human arsenic exposure. Arsenic removal technologies and other methodologies to mitigate
the arsenic problem are addressed not only from the technological perspective, but also from an
economic and social point of view. Only such inter- and multidisciplinary approaches, will allow
case-specific selection of optimal mitigation measures for each specific arsenic problem and
provide the local population with safe drinking water, food, and air.
We have the ambition to make this book series an international, multi- and interdisciplinary
source of knowledge and a platform for arsenic research oriented to the direct solution of
problems with considerable social impact and relevance rather than simply focusing on cut-
ting edge and breakthrough research in physical, chemical, toxicological and medical sciences.
The book series will also form a consolidated source of information on the worldwide occur-
rences of arsenic, which otherwise is dispersed and often hard to access. It will also have role in
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increasing the awareness and knowledge of the arsenic problem among administrators, policy
makers and company executives and in improving international and bilateral cooperation on
arsenic contamination and its effects.
Consequently, we see this book series as a comprehensive information base, which includes
authored or edited books from world-leading scientists on their specific field of arsenic research,
but also contains volumes with selected papers from international or regional congresses or
other scientific events. Further, the abstracts presented during the homonymous biannual inter-
national congress series, which we organize in different parts of the world is being compiled in a
stand-alone book series “Arsenic in the Environment – Proceedings” that would give short and
crisp state of the art periodic updates of the contemporary trends in arsenic-related research.
Both series are open for any person, scientific association, society or scientific network, for the
submission of new book projects. Supported by a strong multi-disciplinary editorial board,
book proposals and manuscripts are peer reviewed and evaluated.
Jochen Bundschuh
Prosun Bhattacharya
(Series Editors)
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Editorial board
Kazi Matin Ahmed Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000,
Bangladesh
E-mail [email protected]
Mohammad Alauddin Department of Chemistry, Wagner College, Staten Island,
NY 10301, USA
E-mail [email protected]
Süer Anaç Department of Irrigation and Agricultural Structures,
Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
E-mail [email protected]
Michael Berg Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science
and Technology, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
E-mail [email protected]
Marek Bryjak Department Polymer & Carbon Materials, Wroclaw University
of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
E-mail [email protected]
José A. Centeno Department of Environmental and Infectious Disease Sciences,
US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
20306-6000, USA
E-mail: [email protected]
D. Chandrasekharam Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute
of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
E-mail [email protected]
Laurent Charlet Earth and Planetary Science Department (LGIT-OSUG),
University of Grenoble-I, BP 53 38041 Grenoble, France
E-mail [email protected]
Chien-Jen Chen Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica,
Taipei City 115, Taiwan
E-mail [email protected]
Virginia Ciminelli Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,
35/206- Belo Horizonte- MG 30160-030, Brazil
E-mail [email protected]
Luis H. Cumbal Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas, Escuela Politecnica del
Ejercito (ESPE), Sangolqui, Ecuador
E-mail [email protected]
Luz Maria Del Razo Department of Toxicology, CINVESTAV-IPN, 07360 Mexico
City, Mexico
E-mail [email protected]
Vicenta Devesa Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA),
46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
E-mail [email protected]
María Eugenia Gonsebatt Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico
E-mail [email protected]
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