* Provides a viable reference, describing the state-of-knowledge on sources of arsenic contamination in ground water, which affects about 100 million people worldwide.* With contributions from world-renowned experts in the field, this book explores developments in the transport kinetics, detection, measurement, seasonal cycling, accumulation, geochemistry, removal, and toxicology of arsenic.* Includes compelling case studies describing how arsenic contamination occurs and the devastating effects on the people and environment affected by it.

Contributors.Preface.1. Problems and Solutions of Arsenic Contamination ofGroundwater (Satinder Ahuja).2. Fate of Arsenic in Irrigation Water and its Potential Impacton the Food Chain (S.M. Imamul Huq).3. Microbial Controls on the Geochemical Behavior of Arsenic inGroundwater Systems (Farhana S. Islam).4. Molecular Detection of Dissimilatory Arsenate-RespiringBacteria in North Carolina Groundwater (Holly Oates and BongkeunSong).5. Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization andSequestration (Kate M. Campbell and Janet G. Hering).6. Geomicrobiology of Iron and Arsenic in Anoxic Sediments(Carolina Reyes, Jonathan R. Lloyd, and Chad W. Saltikov).7. Development of Measurement Technologies for the Low-Cost,Reliable, Rapid, On-Site Determination of Arsenic Compounds inWater (Julian F. Tyson).8. Field Test Kits for Arsenic: Evaluation in Terms ofSensitivity, Reliability, Applicability, and Cost (JörgFeldmann and Pascal Salaün).9. Mucilage of Opuntia ficus-indica for Use as a Flocculant ofSuspended Particulates and Arsenic (Kevin A. Young, Thomas Pichler,Alessandro Anzalone, and Norma Alcantar).10. Prediction of Arsenic Removal by Adsorptive Media:Comparison of Field and Laboratory Studies (Malcolm Siegel AliciaAragon, Hongting Zhao, Shuguang Deng, Melody Nocon, and MalyndaAragon).11. Arsenic Remediation of Bangladesh Drinking Water Using IronOxide-Coated Coal Ash (Ashok Gadgil, Lara Gundel, andChristina Galitsky).12. Development of a Simple Arsenic Filter for Groundwater ofBangladesh Based on a Composite Iron Matrix (Abul Hussam and AbulK.M. Munir).13. Community-Based Well-Head Arsenic Removal Units in RemoteVillages of West Bengal, India (Sudipta Sarkar, Anirban Gupta, LeeM. Blaney, J. E. Greenleaf, Debabrata Ghosh, Ranjan K. Biswas, andArup K. SenGupta).14. Water Supply Technologies for Arsenic Mitigation (M. FerozeAhmed).15. Solutions of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater (SatinderAhuja).Index.