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Health risk assessment upon exposure to groundwater arsenic among individuals of different sex and age groups of Vaishali district, Bihar (India).
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Abstract
Availability of safe drinking water is one of the requirements for maintaining good health. Unfortunately, inhabitants of many nations suffer from adverse health effects due to the intake of arsenic-contaminated groundwater. The Vaishali district of Bihar (India) is the part of Ganga River Basin, a hotspot of arsenic contamination and hence, risk assessment among its individuals is highly pertinent. This study aimed to evaluate the extent of arsenic contamination in the ground waters of Bidupur block under Vaishali district, followed by an assessment of health risk, both non-cancer and cancer, within the arsenic-exposed adult females, adult males and children. Estimation of groundwater arsenic was done in 68 duplicate samples through an MQuant test kit (Merck, Germany). For this, Microsoft Office Excel and ArcGIS software were used as a tool. The results showed that only one-fourth of the groundwater samples exceeded the WHO permissible limit of arsenic with a high contamination factor. The total hazard index (HI), representing the non-cancer risk, was found above the threshold value (>1) among all individuals, which was high among the adults, more in adult females (3.21) than adult males (2.97), and low among the children (2.02). The cancer risk, expressed in terms of cancer index (CI), was also beyond the acceptable limit (10
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