Eawag: Groundwater pollution Red River Delta/Vietnam: Publications

Arsenic pollution of groundwater in Vietnam exacerbated by deep aquifer exploitation for more than a century. PNAS, 108, January 2011.
Lenny Winkel, Pham Thi Kim Trang, Vi Mai Lan, Caroline Stengel, Manouchehr Amini, Nguyen Thi Ha, Pham Hung Viet, Michael Berg*. [...]

Magnitude of Arsenic Pollution in the Mekong and Red River Deltas - Cambodia and Vietnam. Science of the Total Environment, 372, 413–425 (2007).
Michael Berg*, Caroline Stengel, Pham Thi Kim Trang, Pham Hung Viet, Mickey L. Sampson, Moniphea Leng, Sopheap Samreth, David Fredericks. [...]

Contamination of Drinking Water Resources in the Mekong Delta Floodplains: Arsenic and Other Trace Metals Pose Serious Health Risks to Population. Environment International, 34, 756–764 (2008).
Johanna Buschmann, Michael Berg*, Caroline Stengel, Lenny Winkel, Mickey L. Sampson, Pham Thi Kim Trang, and Pham Hung Viet. [...]

Hydrological and Sedimentary Controls Leading to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in the Hanoi Area, Vietnam: The Impact of Iron-Arsenic Ratios, Peat, River Bank Deposits, and Excessive Groundwater Abstraction. Chemical Geology, 249, 91–112 (2008).
Michael Berg*, Pham Thi Kim Trang, Caroline Stengel, Johanna Buschmann, Pham Hung Viet, Walter Giger, and Doris Stüben. [...]

Predicting groundwater arsenic contamination in Southeast Asia from surface parameters. Nature Geoscience, 1, 536–542 (2008).
Lenny Winkel, Michael Berg*, Manouchehr Amini, Stephan J. Hug, C. Annette Johnson. [...]

Arsenic Removal from Groundwater by Household Sand Filters: Comparative Field Study, Model Calculations, and Health Benefits. Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 5567–5573 (2006).
Berg M.*, Luzi S., Trang P.K.T., Viet P.H., Giger W., Stüben D. [...]

Household Sand Filters for Arsenic Removal; Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). Dubendorf, Switzerland, 2004.
Luzi S., Berg M.*, Pham T.K.T., Pham H.V., Schertenleib R. [...]

Bangladesh and Vietnam: Different groundwater compositions require different approaches to arsenic mitigation. Environmental Science & Technology, 42, 6318–6323 (2008).
Stephan J. Hug*, Olivier X. Leupin, Michael Berg. [...]

Impact of sulfate reduction on the scale of arsenic contamination in groundwater of the Mekong, Bengal and Red River deltas. Applied Geochemistry, 24, 1278-1286 (2009).
Johanna Buschmann*, Michael Berg. [...]

Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater and Drinking Water in Vietnam: A Human Health Threat. Environmental Science & Technology, 35, 2621–2626 (2001).
Berg M.*, Tran H.C., Nguyen T.C., Pham H.V., Schertenleib R., Giger W. [...]

Arsenic mobilisation in a new well-field of drinking water production along the Red River, Nam Du, Hanoi. Applied Geochemistry, 23, 3127-3142 (2008).
Jenny Norrman*, Charlotte J. Sparrenbom, Michael Berg, Dang Duc Nhan, Pham Quy Nhan, Håkan Rosqvist, Gunnar Jacks, Emma Sigvardsson, David Baric, Johanna Moreskog, Peter Harms-Ringdahl, Nguyen Van Hoan. [...]

Geochemical processes underlying a sharp contrast in groundwater arsenic concentrations in a village on the Red River delta, Vietnam. Applied Geochemistry, 23, 3143-3154 (2008).
Elisabeth Eiche*, Thomas Neumann, Michael Berg, Beth Weinman, Alexander van Geen, Stefan Norra, Zsolt Berner, Pham Thi Kim Trang, Pham Hung Viet, Doris Stüben. [...]

Comparison of arsenic concentrations in simultaneously-collected groundwater and aquifer particles from Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, and Nepal. Applied Geochemistry, 23, 3244-3251 (2008).
A. van Geen*, K. Radloff, Z. Aziz, Z. Cheng, M.R. Huq, K.M. Ahmed, B. Weinman, S. Goodbred, H.B. Jun, Y. Zheng, M. Berg, P.T.K. Trang, L. Charlet, J. Metral, D. Tisserand, S. Guillot, S. Chakraborty, A.P. Gajurel, B.N. Upreti. [...]

Arsenic in Groundwaters of South-East Asia: with emphasis on Cambodia and Vietnam (Editorial). Applied Geochemistry, 23, 2968-2976 (2008).
David A. Polya*, Michael Berg, Andrew G. Gault and Yoshio Takahashi. [...]

Environmental Analytical Research in Northern Vietnam – A Swiss-Vietnamese Cooperation focusing on Arsenic and Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Environments and Drinking Water. Chimia, 57(9), 529–536 (2003).
Giger W.*, Berg M., Pham H.V., Duong H.A., Tran H.C., Cao T.H., Schertenleib R., [...]

Organic pollutants in Vietnam

Occurrence, Fate and Antibiotic Resistance of Fluoroquinolone Antibacterials in Hospital Wastewaters in Hanoi, Vietnam. Chemosphere, 72, 968–973 (2008).
Hong Anh Duong, Ngoc Ha Pham, Hoang Tung Nguyen, Thi Thuong Hoang, Hung Viet Pham, Van Ca Pham, Michael Berg, Walter Giger, and Alfredo C. Alder*. [...]

Recent levels of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments of the sewer system in Hanoi, Vietnam. Environmental Pollution, 158, 913-920 (2010).
Pham Manh Hoai, Nguyen Thuy Ngoc, Nguyen Hung Minh, Pham Hung Viet, Michael Berg, Alfredo C. Alder, Walter Giger*. [...]

Trihalomethane Formation by Chlorination of Ammonium- and Bromide-containing Groundwater in Water Supplies of Hanoi, Vietnam. Water Research, 37, 3242–3252 (2003).
Duong H.A., Berg M.*, Hoang M.H., Pham H.V., Gallard H., Giger W., von Gunten U. [...]

Cambodia groundwater As contamination

Arsenic and Manganese Contamination of Drinking Water Resources in Cambodia: Coincidence of Risk Areas with Low Relief Topography. Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 2146–2152 (2007).
Johanna Buschmann, Michael Berg*, Caroline Stengel, Mickey L. Sampson. [...]

Modelling arsenic hazard in groundwater in Cambodia: a geostatistical approach using ancillary data. Applied Geochemistry, 23, 3010-3018 (2008).
Luis Rodriguez Lado*, David Polya, Lenny Winkel, Michael Berg, Aimee Hegan. [...]

Arsenic in Groundwaters of South-East Asia: with emphasis on Cambodia and Vietnam (Editorial). Applied Geochemistry, 23, 2968-2976 (2008).
David A. Polya*, Michael Berg, Andrew G. Gault and Yoshio Takahashi. [...]

Groundwater arsenic contamination in general

Geochemistry and arsenic behaviour in groundwater resources of the Pannonian Basin (Hungary and Romania). Applied Geochemistry 26, 1-17 (2011).
Rowland H.A.L.*, Omoregie E.O., Millot R., Jimenez C., Mertens J., Baciu C., Hug S.J., Berg M.* [...]

Geochemical changes in individual sediment grains during sequential arsenic extractions. Water Research, 44, 5545-5555 (2010).
Elisabeth Eiche*, Utz Kramar, Michael Berg, Zsolt Berner, Stefan Norra, Thomas Neumann. [...]

Statistical Modeling of Global Geogenic Arsenic Contamination in Groundwaters. Environmental Science & Technology, 42, 3669–3675 (2008).
Manouchehr Amini, Karim C. Abbaspour, Michael Berg, Lenny Winkel, Stephan J. Hug, Eduard Hoehn, Hong Yang, Annette C. Johnson*. [...]

Hydrogeological survey assessing arsenic and other groundwater contaminants in the lowlands of Sumatra, Indonesia. Applied Geochemistry, 23, 3019-3028 (2008).
Lenny Winkel, Michael Berg*, Caroline Stengel, Thomas Rosenberg. [...]

Arsenite and Arsenate Binding to Dissolved Humic Acids: Influence of pH, Type of Humic Acid and Aluminum. Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 6015–6020 (2006).
Buschmann J.*, Kappeler A., Lindauer U., Kistler D., Berg M., Sigg L. [...]

Kinetics and Mechanistic Aspects of As(III) Oxidation by Aqueous Chlorine, Chloramines, and Ozone: Relevance to Drinking Water Treatment. Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 3285–3292 (2006).
Dodd M.C., Vu N.D., Ammann A., Le V.C., Kissner R., Pham H.V., Cao T.H., Berg M., von Gunten U.* [...]

Bacterial Bioassay for Rapid and Accurate Analysis of Arsenic in Highly Variable Groundwater Samples. Environmental Science & Technology, 39, 7625–7630 (2005).
Pham Thi Kim Trang, Michael Berg*, Pham Hung Viet, Nguyen Van Mui, Jan Roelof van der Meer*. [...]

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Dr. Michael Berg
Water Resources and Drinking Water
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