Probabilistic modelling is superior to deterministic approaches in the human health risk assessment: an example from a tribal stretch in central India.

ABSTRACT: This case drew national attention in 2018. About 100 people died and more than 300 hospitalized in a span of few years in a village of 1200 people in a tribal stretch in central India. Medical teams visiting the area reported severe renal failure and blamed the local eating and drinking habits as causative factors. This human health assessment based on geochemical investigations finds nitrate (NO₃^-) and fluoride (F^-) pollution as well in village's groundwater. Both deterministic and probabilistic techniques are employed to decipher the contamination pathways and extent of contamination. Source apportionments of NO₃^- and F^- and their relationship with other ions in groundwater are carried out through chemometric modelling. La

SUBMITTER: Herojeet R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10630383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature