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Health risk assessment due to fluoride contamination in groundwater of Bichpuri, Agra, India: a case study

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The present study deals with the assessment of health risks due to fluoride contamination in Bichpuri block of Agra, India. Sampling was carried out from 60 different spatially distributed well locations. Assessment of human health risk was carried out using computations based on chronic daily intake (CDI) and hazard quotient (HQ) in all three categories, i.e., infants, children, and adults. Fluoride ingested by adults, as estimated in terms of CDI was found 1.5 times greater than infants and 1.25 times than children, correspondingly indicating severity of health issue. Moreover, values of HQ were found greater than 1 in the entire target group having infants, children, and adults with the exception only in Bichpuri village of the block. More than 92% of the samples showed risk values exceeding the safe level of 1, indicating vulnerable quality of water due to fluoride. Piper and Schoeller diagram were also plotted to explore presence of other important ions present in the groundwater of studied area.

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  1. Anand Engineering College, Agra, India

    Shahjad Ali

  2. Department of Environmental, Science and Engineering Indian, Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India

    Sunil Kumar Gupta

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Alok Sinha & Saif Ullah Khan

  4. Department of Petroleum Studies, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh, India

    Hamid Ali

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Ali, S., Gupta, S.K., Sinha, A. et al. Health risk assessment due to fluoride contamination in groundwater of Bichpuri, Agra, India: a case study. Model. Earth Syst. Environ. 8, 299–307 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-021-01105-8

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