Abstract
At a great many locations worldwide, the safety of drinking water is not assured due to pollution with arsenic. Arsenic toxicity is a matter of both systems chemistry and systems biology: it is determined by complex and intertwined networks of chemical reactions in the inanimate environment, in microbes in that environment, and in the human body. We here review what is known about these networks and their interconnections. We then discuss how consideration of the systems aspects of arsenic levels in groundwater may open up new avenues towards the realization of safer drinking water. Along such avenues, both geochemical and microbiological conditions can optimize groundwater microbial ecology vis-à-vis reduced arsenic toxicity.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 89 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-51 |
| Number of pages | 51 |
| Journal | Toxics |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 19 Jan 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2024 |
Bibliographical note
This article belongs to the Special Issue: Heavy Metal Contamination and Exposure Risk Assessment via Drinking Groundwater.Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the authors.
Keywords
- arsenic microbial ecology
- arsenic toxicity
- bioaugmentation
- bioremediation
- iron in drinking water wells
- safe drinking water
- subsurface arsenic removal
- systems biology
- systems chemistry
- systems toxicology