Arsenic Contamination, Removal, and Health Risk Assessment

Arsenic Contamination, Removal, and Health Risk Assessment

This community investigates the presence of arsenic in water and soil, the methods for removing it from drinking water, and the assessment of health risks associated with human exposure.

The work centers on the chemistry of inorganic arsenic species, particularly arsenic trioxide and arsenic(III), and their behavior in groundwater, soil, and rice crops. A significant portion of the research focuses on remediation technologies, specifically adsorption and treatment processes to remove arsenic from contaminated water sources. Concurrently, the community addresses the toxicological mechanisms of arsenic exposure, including oxidative stress and bioaccumulation, to evaluate health risks for populations relying on affected water supplies. The recurring themes link environmental contamination directly to human health outcomes, with specific attention to the speciation of arsenic and its interaction with other heavy metals in natural and industrial settings.

Arsenic research accounts for 56.4% of the community's output, representing 20,177 papers. Iron and manganese also appear in the literature, with 396 and 314 papers respectively, reflecting the co-occurrence of these elements in groundwater systems.

The community comprises 24,134 papers, published primarily in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, Science of The Total Environment, and Chemosphere.

Recent work continues to focus on arsenic removal using advanced materials like metal-organic frameworks, the assessment of heavy metal risks in aquaculture and drinking water, and the immobilization of arsenic in agricultural soils.

Papers behind this description

• Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally — Nature, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06879-8
• Arsenic and other geogenic contaminants in global groundwater — Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s43017-024-00519-z
• From contamination to detection: The growing threat of heavy metals — Heliyon, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41713
• Escalating arsenic contamination throughout Chinese soils — Nature Sustainability, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01341-7
• Drinking Water Contaminants — 2024 — doi:10.1201/9781003493839-3
• Arsenic pollution cycle, toxicity and sustainable remediation technologies: A comprehensive review and bibliometric analysis — Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 — doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119504
• Global threat of arsenic in groundwater — Science, 2020 — doi:10.1126/science.aba1510
• Arsenic contamination of groundwater: A global synopsis with focus on the Indian Peninsula — Geoscience Frontiers, 2020 — doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2020.08.015
• Chemometric investigation of river system contamination: Source identification and risk assessment using positive matrix factorization and Monte Carlo simulation — Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2025.104627
• Pollution and health risk assessment of heavy metals in surface water of the industrial region in Gazipur, Bangladesh — Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.enceco.2025.02.014
• The effects of different methods of cooking on proximate, mineral and heavy metal composition of fish and shrimps consumed in the Arabian Gulf — Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, 2026 — doi:10.37527/2008.58.1.015
• New insights into zinc alleviating renal toxicity of arsenic-exposed carp (Cyprinus carpio) through YAP-TFR/ROS signaling pathway — Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.pestbp.2024.106153
• Interlinking metal pollution, sources, and health hazards in Çamlıgöze aquaculture waters, Türkiye: An application in environmental forensics — Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.psep.2025.108183
• Exposure and Toxicity Factors in Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal(loid)s in Water — Water, 2025 — doi:10.3390/w17192901
• Spatial variation in water quality, their ecotoxicological risks, and source apportionment in the Marmara Sea Watershed, Türkiye — Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C, 2026 — doi:10.1016/j.pce.2026.104280
• Determining sources of groundwater salinity in the multi-layered aquifer system of the bengal delta, Bangladesh — BRAC University Journal, 2026 — doi:10.64501/tg9bbj82
• Advancing Arsenic Water Treatment Using UiO-66 and Its Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework Analogs — Nanomaterials, 2025 — doi:10.3390/nano15211621
• Hydrochemistry, quality, and potential health risk appraisal of arsenic-enriched groundwater in central-west Bangladesh using the integrated water quality index and Monte Carlo simulation — Science of The Total Environment, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180707