Arsenic in Latin America.
Distribution, analytical methods and low-cost technologies for arsenic removal (IBEROARSEN)
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Arsenic uptake by humans from drinking water
is known to produce worldwide serious health problems. However,
the information about the occurrence of this element in water
and its health effects on the population is very limited and
dispersed. In addition, adequate low-cost methods to remove
arsenic from water are mostly developed on laboratory scale, but
not yet proved on field scale or even applied to solve the
problems of the affected population.
Participants of IBEROARSEN bring 23 research groups from 10
countries of Latin America, Spain and Portugal together. Their
aim is to promote joint actions and assistance to collect and to
exchange the available information about the occurrence and the
methodological and analytical methods to determination arsenic
in natural systems of the region and to find effective methods
for arsenic removal. This will also contribute to obtain
appropriate solutions to the health problems related to arsenic
ingestion that affect —mostly poor and isolated villages— in
Latin America.
Three main aspects focus on:
1) Occurrence of arsenic in water, sediments and soils.
2) Analytical methods for the determination and speciation of
arsenic in different environments (e.g., water, sediment, soil).
3) Low-cost technologies for arsenic removal.
Workshop of As
distribution in Ibero-America. Abstract book
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