Kashyap, P;
Kaushal, J;
Mahajan, P;
John, P;
(2022)
Critical analysis of fluoride contaminated water in the Malwa belt of Punjab and its impact on health.
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AIP Conference Proceedings.
AIP Publishing: Rajpura, India.
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Abstract
Contamination in ground water with flouride is one of the foremost challenge in Indiaparticularly in certain states of India including Punjab. Natural sources of presence of fluoride in groundwater include dissolution of fluoride bearing rock minerals, whereas anthropogenic sources include the use of phosphate fertilizers, sewage sludge, coal burning, etc. Fluoride when ingested beyond the permissible range causes dental and skeletal fluorosis. Fluoride toxicity is causing serious health hazards in residents of Punjab. Various cost-effective and simple water defluorination techniques like adsorption, coagulation-precipitation, ion-exchange, etc. are known. Due to lack of awareness, rural population has not been benefitted much from such techniques. There is an urgent need to undertake a geological and geophysical survey to analyze the fluoride content in groundwater in the Malwa belt of Punjab so that workable strategy can be planned and developed to make groundwater potable. This paper presents the analysis of the Malwa belt of Punjab, which is highly contaminated with fluoride, and its impact on health and also suggests different remedial measures which can be adopted to decrease the fluoride content from water in rural areas.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Critical analysis of fluoride contaminated water in the Malwa belt of Punjab and its impact on health |
| Event: | National Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Mathematics (NCASM-20) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0080618 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0080618 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | fluoride, groundwater, contamination, fluorosis, remedial measures |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201388 |
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