The Taiwan crisis a showcase of the global arsenic problem

• Other Authors: Jean, Jiin-Shuh
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press/Balkema, 2010.
• Series: Arsenic in the environment ; v. 3.
• Subjects: Groundwater > Arsenic content > Taiwan.; Arsenic > Physiological effect > Taiwan.; Environmental toxicology > Taiwan.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780203848067
• Physical Description: xxix, 203 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), col. ports.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Taiwan and the global arsenic problem
• 2. Geological controls of arsenic concentrations in ground- and surface-waters : an overview of our worldwide state-of-the-art knowledge
• 3. History of blackfoot disease
• 4. Cause of blackfoot disease : arsenic in artesian well water
• 5. Non-vascular health effects of arsenic in drinking water in Taiwan
• 6. Arsenic sources, occurrences and mobility in surface water, groundwater and sediments
• 7. Arsenic in soils and plants : accumulation and bioavailability
• 8. Potential threat of the use of arsenic-contaminated water in aquaculture
• 9. Current solutions to arsenic-contaminated water
• 10. Future areas of study and tasks for the Taiwan arsenic problem.