Dr. Manoj Kumar has completed his M.Sc. and Ph. D in Environmental Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2017. He has taught for 7 years at Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana. His research interest is in the field of drinking water contamination from groundwater sources in different parts of the world, especially focusing on geogenic contaminants – arsenic and fluoride. He has supervised and co-supervised 80 M.Sc. dissertations. He is a recipient of Crawford Fund Fellowship in 2013.
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Geogenic or naturally occurring arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater is widespread particularly in south-east Asian countries (Kumar et al., 2016a; Mandal and Suzuki, 2002; Naidu et al., 2007; Singh et al., 2016). It has a significant threat to human health and a massive challenge to clean water supplies in the affected areas. Recent estimate shows ∼150 million people are affecting around the world via groundwater extracting from naturally occurring As-contaminated aquifers (Podgorski et al., 2017). Our research is focused on the central Gangetic Basin located in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India, is a highly populated and extremely fertile area (Saha and Sahu, 2016). The area of central and upper Gangetic Basin (∼0.25 million km2), ranges from the Garo Rajmahal Hills in the south to the Tarai zone in the north, covers much of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India population: ∼303.9 million (Chandramouli and General, 2011; Saha and Sahu, 2016). We have applied a holistic approach to understand the mobility of inorganic As species (AsIII and ASV) in water, soil-sediments and plants products (grains). We have identified the As-hot spots and estimated health risk on the consumption of contaminated water and food on the residing people.
