Status of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the States of North East India: A Review

Occurrences of geogenicGeogenic arsenicArsenic pollution have been reported from countries of Asia, the US, South America, Africa, and the European continents (Mandal and Suzuki, Talanta 58:201–235, 2002; Nordstrom, Science 296:2143–2145, 2002; Mukherjee et al., J Health Popul Nutr 24:142–163, 2006; Ravenscroft et al., Arsenic pollution: A global synthesis. Wiley, 2009). Various health hazardsHealth hazards take place due to intakeIntake of arsenicArsenic, in excess of 50 gm/L. It has also been well established that the mobilization of arsenicArsenic is in sedimentary aquifersAquifers.