Tufail Ahmed Bhatti, Ashfqa Ahmed, Saleem Wazir, Zahid Saddar.
Ground water contamination by arsenic, sindh pakistan.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;4(2):45-7.

Contamination of ground water by Arsenic semi-metal in nature causes Public health hazards. It enters drinking water supplies from natural deposits. UNICEF sponsored a National Sample Survey on arsenic contamination of ground water sources in 2001 and nine districts were surveyed in Pakistan. In April 2009 SEPA assigned the same task to the SHEDS organization to found contamination of ground water for arsenic in Sindh.This project was to establish the effective coordination and awareness among the community with detecting the arsenic level in their drinking water sources. The project was implemented to all six districts administration stakeholders through the meetings, trainings and eld testing of water sampling. During implementation of the project various linkages were developed. The project trained 1296 volunteer's participants in the trainings of six selected districts. In practical samples were collected from four main sources: hand pump, tube well, wells and main supply lines. The present study on Arsenic in drinking water samples have been conducted in Jamshoro, Sukkur, Dadu, Ghotki, Jacababad and Kashmore. The results on Arsenic concentration in drinking water samples showed higher in hand pumps as compared to the other sources. Out of 4926 samples 1506 samples (30.572) exceeding WHO standard and 547 samples (11.10%) exceeding of Pakistan's standard for Arsenic. The data reveals that the most affected district was Sukkur which contains high level of Arsenic i.e. 42.82% as contamination of water. Government should make plan of alternate water supply in arsenic affected area. (Pak J Public Health 2014; 4(2):37-39) Key words: Ground Water, Arsenic, Contamination, Pakistan

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