Health risk assessment and metal contamination in fish, water and soil sediments in the East Kolkata Wetlands, India, Ramsar site

East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) is an important site for fish culture in sewage-fed areas, which are major receivers of pollutants and wastages from Kolkata. EKW is internationally important as the Ramsar site was declared on Aug 2002 with an area of 125 km 2 . EKW is a natural water body where wastewat...

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Published in:	Scientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 1546 - 18
Main Authors:	Kumar, Neeraj, Chandan, Nitish Kumar, Bhushan, Shashi, Singh, Dilip Kumar, Kumar, Satish
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 27.01.2023 Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio
Subjects:	631/601/2722 704/172/169/895 Animal tissues Animals Aquaculture Arsenic Arsenic - analysis Arsenic - toxicity Bioaccumulation Cadmium Cadmium - analysis Chromium Cobalt Contamination Copper Environmental Monitoring - methods Fish Fish culture Fishes Gallium Geologic Sediments - chemistry Hazardous wastes Health risk assessment Health risks Heavy metals Humanities and Social Sciences Lead Lead - analysis Manganese Mass spectrometry Mass spectroscopy Mercury Mercury - analysis Metal concentrations Metals Metals, Heavy - analysis Metals, Heavy - toxicity Molybdenum multidisciplinary Nickel Risk Assessment Sampling Science Science (multidisciplinary) Sediment load Sediments Selenium Selenium - analysis Sewage Sewage - analysis Silver Soil - chemistry Strontium Toxicity Vanadium Wastewater Water - analysis Water bodies Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis Water Pollutants, Chemical - toxicity Water sampling Wetlands
ISSN:	2045-2322, 2045-2322
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