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National Arsenic Steering Committee (Nepal) Environment and Public Health Organization (Nepal) The State of Arsenic in Nepal - 2003 B. R. Shrestha (PhD), J. W. Whitney (PhD) and K. B. Shrestha (PhD) (Editors) January 2004
This document is the output of the project funded by United States Geological Survey (USGS) through a US Government Public Diplomacy Grant from the US Embassy in Kathmandu. Reproduction of materials contained in this report is granted to the inclusion of the following acknowledgement:- “This report was produced by the National Arsenic Steering Committee (Nepal) and Environment and Public Health Organization (Nepal) undertaking a project funded by USGS through a US Government Public Diplomacy Grant from the US Embassy in Kathmandu. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the USGS or US Embassy”. In cases where only a map, diagram, data from the report or CD are used, the above acknowledgement may be substituted by a full citation to the report. Cover Illustration A woman pumping water from a tube well in Pipra (Purba) village of Saptari District. Bibliographic Reference Shrestha, B. R., Whitney, J. W., and Shrestha, K. B. (Editors), The State of Arsenic in Nepal-2003, National Arsenic Steering Committee, Environment and Public Health Organization, Kathmandu, Nepal, 126 pages and CD-ROM. This publication is comprised of a final report and a CD-ROM ISBN: 99933-895-4-4 © NASC, ENPHO copyright 2004 ii
Page 4 and 5: Project Team Project Co-ordinator R
Page 6 and 7: Contents Acknowledgement Contents L
Page 8 and 9: Abbreviations AAN AAS AIRP As As 2
Page 10 and 11: tube wells contain 0-10 ppb of arse
Page 12 and 13: 1. Introduction Providing safe drin
Page 14 and 15: 3 . Arsenic in groundwater in East
Page 16 and 17: groundwater extraction is about 685
Page 18 and 19: 5.3. Arsenic mitigation measures un
Page 20 and 21: Bangladesh and solves the problem o
Page 22 and 23: 6. Data and map preparation The qua
Page 24 and 25: Table 6.3 presents arsenic tested t
Page 26 and 27: 6.2.2. Preparation of digital spati
Page 28 and 29: 7. Analysis of arsenic concentratio
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Page 42 and 43: 87°35'0"E 87°40'0"E 87°45'0"E 87
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86°10'0"E 28 38 47 95 56 62 11 94
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The distribution of percentage of a
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Low uncertainty: VDCs where proport
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83°45'0"E 83°46'0"E Arsenic Conce
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8. Distribution of arsenic in the T
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81°0'0"E Kanchanpur Kailali Bardiy
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9. Recommendations to improve the N
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with anomalous arsenic concentratio
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Annex 2 Basic Statistics of arsenic
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(a) (b) (c) (d) (e ) (f) (g) (h) (i
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(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i)
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(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i)
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References BGS and DPHE (2001). Ars
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