Current Science

Dharmendra Kumar Jigyasu ¹, Rohit Kuvar ², Nupur Srivastava ¹, Sandeep Singh ³, Indra Bir Singh ¹, Munendra Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226 007, IN
2 Department of Applied Geology, Dr Hari Singh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar 470 003, IN
3 Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667, IN

Abstract

Aluminium (Al), an environmentally abundant and immobile element, has been studied for its mobility in the Gomati River Basin, a part of the Ganga Alluvial Plain, northern India. The dissolved Al concentrations in the Gomati River water and the Lucknow groundwater range over three orders of magnitude, from 14 to 77,861 ppb. In the Gomati River water, Al is classified as a moderately mobile element. Nearly 19% of Lucknow groundwater samples and all the Gomati River water samples have Al values above the permissible limit (200 ppb) recommended by the World Health Organization. Systematic multi-disciplinary study is urgently required to understand the geological association of high Al mobility with human health in the Ganga Alluvial Plain, one of the densely populated regions of the world.

Keywords

Aluminium Mobility, Ganga Alluvial Plain, Groundwater, Human Health.

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