GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA – 2018
Enhanced Collaborative Platform ASMITAS – DIGITAL APPLICATION BASED ON THE SASMIT SEDIMENT COLOR TOOL FOR TARGETING AQUIFERS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES.
Since the past four decades, abstraction of groundwater for drinking water and irrigation has increased manifold especially in developing countries like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh due to depletion of surface water bodies or higher level of pollution. In Bangladesh alone there are more than 10 million tubewells, which include the shallow tubewells drilled by private drillers Many of these tubewells have high level of arsenic (As) presence in aquifers
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