Peter Ravenscroft & Hugh Brammer 
Arsenic Pollution 
A Global Synthesis

Arsenic Pollution summarizes the most current research on
the distribution and causes of arsenic pollution, its impact on
health and agriculture, and solutions by way of water supply,
treatment, and water resource management.

* Provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of
arsenic pollution occurrences

* Integrates geochemistry, hydrology, agriculture, and water
supply and treatment for the first time

* Options are highlighted for developing alternative water
sources and methods for arsenic testing and removal

* Appeals to specialists in one discipline seeking an overview of
the work being done in other disciplines

About the author

Peter Ravenscroft is a Research Associate at the University
of Cambridge and a hydrogeologist with extensive international
experience in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. He spent more
than 10 years working in Bangladesh, where his involvement in
research into the extent and causes of arsenic pollution in that
country became the basis for this book. He co-authored the first
book on groundwater resources in Bangladesh.

Hugh Brammer spent 22 years with FAO in East
Pakistan/Bangladesh, first as a soil surveyor then as an
agricultural development adviser. Following retirement, he was a
visiting consultant for a further seven years, inter alia
for the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan, and wrote seven books on
Bangladesh’s physical environment and agriculture.

Keith Richards is a fluvial geomorphologist and Professor
of Geography at the University of Cambridge. He has research
interests and experience in catchment and river processes and their
management in Europe, Central America, India, Africa and China, and
has been Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and a Vice
President (Research) of the RGS-IBG. He has authored and edited
several books, and published over 150 academic papers.