Global Arsenic Hazard: Ecotoxicology and Remediation

554 Pages·2022·15.003 MB·English

by  Nabeel Khan Niazi, Irshad Bibi, Tariq Aftab

Environmental Science and Engineering
Nabeel Khan Niazi
Irshad Bibi
Tariq Aftab   Editors
Global
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Nabeel Khan Niazi Irshad Bibi Tariq Aftab
Editors
Global Arsenic Hazard
Ecotoxicology and Remediation
Editors
Nabeel Khan Niazi Irshad Bibi
Institute of Soil and Environmental Institute of Soil and Environmental
Sciences Sciences
University of Agriculture Faisalabad University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Faisalabad, Pakistan Faisalabad, Pakistan
Tariq Aftab
Department of Botany
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh, India
ISSN 1863-5520 ISSN 1863-5539 (electronic)
Environmental Science and Engineering
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Contents
1 Global Arsenic Hazard and Sustainable Development ............ 1
Nabeel Khan Niazi
2 Global Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater, Soil and Food
Crops and Health Impacts ..................................... 13
Sana Khalid, Muhammad Shahid, Irshad Bibi, Natasha,
Behzad Murtaza, Tasveer Zahra Tariq, Rabia Naz,
Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain,
and Nabeel Khan Niazi
3 Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation
Options ...................................................... 35
Sudip Sengupta, Tarit Roychowdhury, Amit Phonglosa,
and Jajati Mandal
4 Arsenic in Gold Mining Wastes: An Environmental
and Human Health Threat in Ghana ............................ 49
Albert Kobina Mensah, Bernd Marschner,
Kenneth Joseph Bansah, Eric Stemn, Sabry M. Shaheen,
and Jörg Rinklebe
5 Arsenic Contamination in Karst Regions ........................ 85
Yafei Sun, Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Jianxu Wang
6 Arsenic Dynamics in Paddy Rice Ecosystems and Human
Exposure ..................................................... 99
Indika Herath, Chuxia Lin, and Jochen Bundschuh
7 Interaction of Arsenic with Biochar in Water and Soil:
Principles, Applications, and Prospects .......................... 129
Pabasari A. Koliyabandara, Udayagee Kumarasinghe,
Danushika C. Manatunga, Randika Jayasinghe,
Rohan S. Dassanayake, and Meththika Vithanage
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8 Accumulation and Translocation of Arsenic in Rice with Its
Distributional Flow During Cooking: A Study in West Bengal,
India ......................................................... 159
Antara Das, Nilanjana Roy Chowdhury, Deepanjan Mridha,
Madhurima Joardar, Ayan De, Sharmistha Majumder,
and Tarit Roychowdhury
9 An Overview of Arsenic Contamination in Water Resources
of Pakistan, Risk Assessment and Remediation Strategies ......... 179
Saqib Bashir, Sanaullah Yasin, Safdar Bashir, Zubair Aslam,
Waseem Hassan, Saadullah Khan Leghari, and Nabeel Khan Niazi
10 Approaches for Stochastic Modelling of Toxic Ion Adsorption
at Crystal-Water Interfaces: A Case Study of Arsenic ............ 201
Inna Kurganskaya
11 A Comparison of Technologies for Remediation
of Arsenic-Bearing Water: The Significance of Constructed
Wetlands ..................................................... 223
Aimen Ali, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Nabeel Khan Niazi,
Fazila Younas, Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, Nukshab Zeeshan,
Muhammad Tariq Javed, Muhammad Shahid, and Irshad Bibi
12 Application of Nanotechnology in Mitigating Arsenic Stress
and Accumulation in Crops: Where We Are and Where We
Are Moving Towards .......................................... 247
Debojyoti Moulick, Swati Hazra, Arkabanee Mukherjee,
Sapana Sinha, Subrata Mahanta, Anupam Das, Bedabrata Saha,
Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Jayanta Kumar Biswas
13 Nano-Enabled Remediation of Arsenic-Bearing Water
and Wastewater ............................................... 271
Rabia Ashraf, Irshad Bibi, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain,
Tariq Aftab, and Nabeel Khan Niazi
14 Molecular Aspects of Arsenic Responsive Microbes
in Soil-Plant-Aqueous Triphasic Systems ........................ 291
Arnab Majumdar, Fathima Afsal, Saurav Pathak,
Munish Kumar Upadhayay, Tarit Roychowdhury,
and Sudhakar Srivastava
15 Phosphate-Induced Phytoextraction by Pteris vittata Reduced
Arsenic Uptake by Rice ........................................ 313
Asit Mandal, Tapan J. Purakayastha, Ashok K. Patra,
and Binoy Sarkar
Contents vii
16 Modified Biosorbents as Potential Biomaterials for Arsenic
Removal from Contaminated Water ............................ 335
Shazma Muzammal, Asma Akram, Muhammad Bilal Shakoor,
Asim Jilani, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Mujahid Farid,
and Nabeel Khan Niazi
17 Phytoremedial Potential of Perennial Woody Vegetation
Under Arsenic Contaminated Conditions in Diverse
Environments ................................................. 355
Farah Ejaz, Muhammad Talha Bin Yousaf,
Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Sadaf Gul,
Irfan Ahmed, Muhammad Asif, and Irshad Bibi
18 Bacterial Tolerance and Biotransformation of Arsenic in Soil
and Aqueous Media ........................................... 375
Etisam Mazhar, Tanvir Shahzad, Faisal Mahmood,
Farrukh Azeem, Abid Mahmood, and Sabir Hussain
19 Arsenic Bioremediation of Soil and Water
Systems—An Overview ........................................ 407
Muhammad Shabaan, Kashiuf Asif, Qasim Ali,
Hafiz Naeem Asghar, and Zahir Ahmad Zahir
20 Modern Aspects of Phytoremediation
of Arsenic-Contaminated Soils ................................. 433
Tariq Mehmood, Anam Ashraf, Licheng Peng, Mehak Shaz,
Shakeel Ahmad, Shakeel Ahmad, Ibadullah Khan,
Muhammad Abid, Gajendra Kumar Gaurav, and Umair Riaz
21 Nanoparticulate Iron Oxide Minerals for Arsenic Removal
from Contaminated Water ..................................... 459
Hamna Bashir, Irshad Bibi, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain,
Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Jibran Iqbal
22 Arsenic-Toxicity and Tolerance: Phytochelatin-Mediated
Detoxification and Genetic Engineering-Based Remediation ....... 481
Gouranga Upadhyaya and Aryadeep Roychoudhury
23 Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal,
India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety,
Cultivars and Cultivation Season ............................... 509
Nilanjana Roy Chowdhury, Antara Das, Madhurima Joardar,
Deepanjan Mridha, Ayan De, Sharmistha Majumder,
Jajati Mandal, Arnab Majumdar, and Tarit Roychowdhury
24 Arsenic Contamination in Soil and Water Across South East
Asia: Its Impact and Mitigation Strategies ....................... 533
Lalichetti Sagar, Sultan Singh, Meenakshi Attri, Sagar Maitra,
Tanmoy Shankar, Masina Sairam, Tariq Aftab, and Akbar Hossain
Chapter 1
Global Arsenic Hazard and Sustainable
Development
Nabeel Khan Niazi
Abstract Arsenic (As) is a highly toxic and non-essential element for all forms
of life. Inorganic forms of As, arsenite and arsenate, are more toxic and mobile
than the organic ones. Both geogenic and anthropogenic sources led to contamina-
tion of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with variable As concentrations in over
115 countries worldwide, posing health risk to ~ 250 million people. The path-
ways of As exposure to humans include drinking well water, irrigation water, food
crops, exports and imports of food products (e.g., rice grain, baby food items). This
chapter elaborates global As contamination issue in context of various Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Hence it is crucial to address
global As hazard to ensure water and food security, human health, SDGs, as well
as improve the socio-economic situation of the communities in As-affected areas.
The current chapter introduces key features of this book with twenty four chapters
covering As contamination, ecotoxicology, remediation, risk assessment, environ-
mental modeling of As etc. The introductory chapter also summarizes and provides
key information about this book, which will be useful to successfully address global
As problem for sustainable As mitigation on a global scale by 2030.
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Keywords Global contamination UN SDGs Health Water Soil Remediation
1.1 Introduction
Globally, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems contamination with low to high arsenic
(As) concentrations (> 10 to 1100 mg As kg−1 soil and > 10 to 520 µgL−1) is consid-
ered to be an alarming environmental, agricultural and public health issue because
of the highly toxic nature of As and its many compounds (Smedley and Kinniburgh
2002; Niazi et al. 2015, 2022; Podgorski and Berg 2020). In the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry’s Priority List of Hazardous Substances (ATSDR)
of the USA, As ranks at number one because it has been classified as Class A human
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carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (WHO
2017;ATSDR 2020). Arsenic enters the food chain and affects humans primarily via
As-contaminated food, drinking water, and in some case through air in the form of
As-enriched particulate matter or gaseous As form, as well as direct As contact to
skin from As-containing soil or water (Rahman et al. 2006; Ratnaike 2006; Natasha
et al. 2020a, 2021, 2022).
Arsenic is released into soil and water systems both geogenically and anthro-
pogenically, albeit geogenic sources represent one of the major pathway of As accu-
mulation naturally in the ecosystem, impacting water-food-human systems (Naidu
et al. 2006; Shahid et al. 2017; Shakoor et al. 2018; Bundschuh et al. 2022). Approx-
imately, 250 million people have been reported at potential threat of As-induced
poisoning in over 115 countries, notably because of ingestion of As-rich drinking
well water, which is pumped through millions of hand-driven and electric pumps
installed in alluvial sediments in many countries, especially in South and South-
east Asia and Latin America (Podgorski et al. 2017; Aullón Alcaine et al. 2020;
Bundschuh et al. 2020; Ahmad and Bhattacharya 2021; Thakur et al. 2021).
In groundwater, soil and sediments, As mainly occurs in toxic inorganic species,
arsenite (AsIII) and arsenate (AsV), of which AsIII is 100-time more toxic and mobile
than AsV. Arsenic toxicity to plants, microbes, animals and humans is mainly ascribed
to absorption of AsIII or AsV which are highly bioavailable/bioaccessible As forms in
all life forms. In contrast, organic As species such as arsenobetaine, arsenocholine,
and arsenosugars are non-toxic (Masscheleyn et al. 1991; Matschullat 2000; Rahman
et al. 2009; Hussain et al. 2021a, b). Methylated and thiolated forms of As prevail
mainly in the paddy (flooded) soils, wetlands, and in the sub-surface, near-surface
sulfide rich environments where the abundance of microbial life and iron-sulfur
cycling promote production of thiolated As species (Burton et al. 2013; Niazi and
Burton 2016; Herath et al. 2018). In plant and human tissue, As associates with
sulfur-bearing thiol groups and disrupts their normal functioning and cause toxicity.
Intake of As by the people in its extremely toxic inorganic forms at high levels either
via As-laced drinking well water, food (e.g., rice, vegetables), using As-containing
water for cooking of food or by inhalation of tobacco smoke (Bundschuh et al. 2022).
Exposure to inorganic As species, via drinking water or food, ultimately results in
numerous type of health disorders, including skin lesions, cancers of skin, bladder,
kidneys, hypertension (Hussain et al. 2019, 2021c).
1.2 Global Arsenic Problem—Developing and Developed
World Concern
Arsenic contamination is not only a third world countries or developing nations
problem because many developed world nations (e.g., USA, Australia, UK, France,
China) have been exposed to As at elevated levels both from groundwater and soil As
(Naidu et al. 2006; Brammer and Ravenscroft 2009; Bundschuh et al. 2022). Globally,