GH027
Water is Life: Geogenic Groundwater Contamination and Public Health

Session ID#: 79146

Session Description:
Geogenic contamination of groundwater is a global public health crisis and threatening the success of the UN SDG6.  The current ‘safe-water’ definition includes chemical water quality along with biological safety. In recent decades, studies around the world put arsenic, fluoride and sodium at the forefront of global groundwater pollutants.  The geologic controls on these contaminants are still poorly understood and these contaminants are transnational and occur across socio-economic boundaries, thus eliciting different responses in different regions.  This session welcomes abstracts that investigate these naturally occurring contaminants from the aspect of biogeochemistry and transport, water resources management, water treatment, community water planning, contaminant prevalence and climate change, and the impact of these resources on public health.
Co-Organized:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
Conveners:  Brian Justin Mailloux, Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, Mohammad A Hoque, University of Portsmouth, School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, Portsmouth, United Kingdom and Katya Cherukumilli, University of Washington Seattle, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
 
Drinking water quality in the glacial aquifer system, northern USA: Geogenic contaminants are commonly found at high concentration in this aquifer system that provides drinking water to 30 million people (487990)
Melinda L Erickson, U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Leon Jay Kauffman, USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, West Trenton, NJ, United States, John T Wilson, USGS Indiana Water Science Center, Indianapolis, IN, United States and Richard M Yager, USGS, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Groundwater arsenic hotspots in Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) delta of Myanmar – Implications for rural water supplies (504792)
Mohammad A Hoque1, Khin Kay Khaing2, Mike Fowler1, Mst Sufia Sultana1, Aung Swe3, Cho Cho Myint2 and Gary R Fones1, (1)University of Portsmouth, School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, (2)Hinthada University, Department of Geography, Hinthada, Myanmar, (3)University of Yangon, Department of Geography, Yangon, Myanmar
 
Assessing water quality of traditionally well-known natural mineral water in South Korea for dissolved inorganic constituents (508890)
Dong-Chan Koh1, Jae-Min Lee1, Jong-Sik Ryu2, Young Hwa Oh1, Youn-Young Jung3 and Kyung-Seok Ko1,4, (1)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Pukyong National University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Busan, South Korea, (3)Korea Basic Science Institute, Cheongju, South Korea, (4)Daejeon, South Korea
 
Identifying drivers of successful community-based water treatment of fluoride in rural India (509741)
Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States and Tanya O'Garra, Middlesex University, Economics, London, United Kingdom
 
Impact of storm surge inundation and monsoonal flushing on drinking pond salinity in coastal Bangladesh (511775)
Chi San Tsai1, Adrian P Butler1 and Mohammad A Hoque2, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)University of Portsmouth, School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
 
Identification of Contaminated Groundwater Zones due to Rainwater Seepage using Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Self Potential Methods near a Residential Area in the Neighborhood of Cold Roll Mill of a Metal Industry. (515567)
Akanksha Upadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India
 
An extremely rapid and efficient engineered system to remove arsenic in the groundwater used for drinking (520788)
Siva Rama Satyam Bandaru1, Case M Van Genuchten2, Arkadeep Kumar3, Dana Hernandez1, Mohit Nahata4, Sara Glade1 and Ashok Gadgil1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Technologies Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States
 
Uranium in Rain and Groundwater: Exposure Pathways and Water Supply in Rural Colorado (528002)
Michelle Lanzoni, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Evaluation of geogenic sources using major ions, potential harmful trace elements, and natural organic matter of various drinking water sources in South Korea (528089)
Kyung-Seok Ko1, Dong-Chan Koh2, Jong-Sik Ryu3, Young Hwa Oh2, Youn-Young Jung4, Jae-Min Lee2 and Ho Jeong Jo5, (1)Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (3)Pukyong National University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Busan, South Korea, (4)Korea Basic Science Institute, Cheongju, South Korea, (5)Yuseong, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Arsenic-contaminated deep groundwater in the Bengal Basin: origin and implications for mitigation (529636)
Mahfuzur Khan1, Holly A Michael2, Bibhash Nath3, Brittany Huhmann4, Charles Franklin Harvey5, Abhijit Mukherjee6, Madhumita Chakraborty7, Imtiaz Choudhury8, Mohammad Shahid Ullah9, Kazi Matin Ahmed10, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr11, Peter Schlosser12, Benjamin C Bostick12, Brian Justin Mailloux13, Tyler Ellis12 and Alexander van Geen12, (1)University of Dhaka, Department of Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2)University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (7)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysica, Kharagpur, India, (8)Dhaka University, Geology Department, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (9)Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, (10)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (11)Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Science, Nashville, TN, United States, (12)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (13)Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States
 
Global mapping and modeling of arsenic and fluoride in groundwater (Invited) (530661)
Joel E Podgorski and Michael Berg, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
 
Understanding Hazardous Trace element Leaching from Phosphatic Shales of the Miocene Monterey Formation, California. A Case Study from Lunada Bay, Los Angeles. (558299)
Eliezer Martinez, California State University Long Beach, Geological Sciences, Long Beach, CA, United States
 
Assessing and Mitigating Triggers Releasing Geogenic Contaminants to Groundwater (Invited) (571210)
Scott E Fendorf1, Alandra M Lopez2, Arden A. Wells3, Allison Sherris3 and Sarah Fakhreddine3, (1)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Accumulation and Risk of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORMs)in the Filters Used in Bottled Mineral-Water Facilities (572284)
Sungwook Choung, KBSI Korea Basic Science Institute, Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Woosik Shin, KBSI, Cheonjgu, South Korea, Jeong-Hee Han, KBSI Korea Basic Science Institute, Chungbuk, Korea, Republic of (South) and Byung-Uck Chang, KINS Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Localized decision-making factors governing safe-source selection and their policy implications: a case study in West Bengal, India (573728)
Gokul Sampath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, CA, United States and Katherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Tampa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tampa, FL, United States
 
Joint Impact of Geogenic and Anthropogenic Groundwater Contaminants on Water Quality in California Community Water Systems (575144)
Allison Sherris1, Alandra M Lopez2, Arden A. Wells1 and Scott E Fendorf3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Development of Pumice-Nano Zerovalent Iron Composite and its Application in a Continuous Flow System for Arsenic Removal (576532)
Shashi Ranjan, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, Brijesh K Yadav, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and Himanshu Joshi, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Hydrology, Roorkee, India
 
Developing and Deploying a Low-Cost Groundwater Defluoridation Technology in Resource-Constrained Regions Using Locally Sourced Bauxite (578772)
Katya Cherukumilli, University of Washington Seattle, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Radiocarbon Analysis of RNA and Organic Carbon to Determine the Sustainability of Pleistocene Aquifers in Bangladesh (601887)
Katharine Scanlan1, Sarah Blau2, Brian Justin Mailloux3, Imtiaz Choudhury4, Alexander van Geen5, Chandler Precht2, Tyler Ellis5, Kazi Matin Ahmed6 and Bruce Buchholz7, (1)Barnard College, New York, NY, United States, (2)Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, United States, (3)Barnard College, Environmental Science, New York, NY, United States, (4)Dhaka University, Geology Department, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
Elevated level of Nitrate-Nitrogen in Wells of Carbuna village in the Republic of Moldova: Preliminary results from a short-term community project for testing well water (609204)
Uddipto Nandi1, Luz Arely Cadavid2, Ushana Alyssa Persaud3, Rebecca Victoria4, Marcela Damaschin5, Nicoleta Cebotari6 and Ratan Kumar Dhar2, (1)Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY, United States, (2)York College of the City University of New York, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, NY, United States, (3)York College of the City University of New York, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, NM, United States, (4)York College of the City University of New York, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, United States, (5)Project Casa Mare, Cabuna, the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova, (6)Project Casa Mare, Carbuna, Chisinau, Moldova
 
Physico-chemical characteristics of water in Carbuna Village of the Republic of Moldova: Developing a water quality Index for water resource management (614794)
Luz Arely Cadavid1, Rebecca Victoria2, Ushana Alyssa Persaud3, Marcela Damaschin4, Nicoleta Cebotari5 and Ratan Kumar Dhar1, (1)York College of the City University of New York, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, NY, United States, (2)York College of the City University of New York, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, United States, (3)York College of the City University of New York, Earth and Physical Sciences, Jamaica, NM, United States, (4)Project Casa Mare, Cabuna, the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova, (5)Project Casa Mare, Carbuna, Chisinau, Moldova
 
Geogenic uranium and arsenic release results in water-quality impacts in a subarctic region of granitic and metamorphic geology (624163)
Elliott K Skierszkan1, John W Dockrey2, Ulrich K. Mayer3 and Roger Daniel Beckie1, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Lorax Environmental Services, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Comprehensive Investigation and Health Implication of Fluoride Exposure in Groundwater in Parts of Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh, India (625097)
Amit KUMAR Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, India, M Saravanan, Mekelle University, College of Health Science, Mekelle, Ethiopia and Swetabh Patel, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
 
Criteria for Prioritizing Interventions to Reduce Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Well Water in Bangladesh (628342)
Nadia Binte Jamil1, Huan Feng1, Kazi Matin Ahmed2 and Alexander van Geen3, (1)Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States, (2)Dhaka University, Geology Department, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
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