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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Low-Level Groundwater Atrazine in High Atrazine Usage Nebraska Counties: Likely Effects of Excessive Groundwater Abstraction.

Moses New-Aaron, Olufemi Abimbola, Raheleh Mohammadi, Oluwaseun Famojuro, Zaeema Naveed, Azar Abadi, Jesse E Bell, Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Eleanor G Rogan

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Moses New-AaronDepartment of Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5681-1185
Olufemi AbimbolaDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0726, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6700-6015
Raheleh MohammadiDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1799-9802
Oluwaseun FamojuroDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.
Zaeema NaveedSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Azar AbadiDepartment of Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4638-7234
Jesse E BellDepartment of Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.
Shannon Bartelt-HuntDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182-0178, USA.
Eleanor G RoganDepartment of Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.
University of Nebraska Medical Center · USUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln · USUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies observed a correlation between estrogen-related cancers and groundwater atrazine in eastern Nebraska counties. However, the mechanisms of human exposure to atrazine are unclear because low groundwater atrazine concentration was observed in counties with high cancer incidence despite having the highest atrazine usage. We studied groundwater atrazine fate in high atrazine usage Nebraska counties. Data were collected from Quality Assessed Agrichemical Contaminant Nebraska Groundwater, Parameter-Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM), and water use databases. Descriptive statistics and cluster analysis were performed. Domestic wells (59%) were the predominant well type. Groundwater atrazine was affected by well depth. Clusters consisting of wells with low atrazine were characterized by excessive groundwater abstraction, reduced precipitation, high population, discharge areas, and metropolitan counties. Hence, low groundwater atrazine may be due to excessive groundwater abstraction accompanied by atrazine. Human exposure to atrazine in abstracted groundwater may be higher than the estimated amount in groundwater.

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AtrazineGroundwaterHumansNebraskaWater WellsAtrazineabstractionatrazinecancersclimategroundwaterNebraska

Identifiers

PMID34948848
PMCPMC8701136
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