In this review paper interaction of arsenic with iron hydroxide and effects of anions, such as silicate, phosphate and bicarbonate on arsenic adsorption by iron hydroxides, are discussed. Arsenic is strongly adsorbed on the surface sites of iron hydroxides through the formation of inner-sphere complexes.

Aquatic vegetation is generally considered as nuisance plant communities which cause hindrance to aquaculture practice, resulting in the loss of aquaculture yields. Despite all these disadvantages, the importance of freshwater vegetation and their resources to human welfare can not be neglected rather invites attention too.

Author describes a success story of implementing a distributed SCADA system first time in India in a rural water supply scheme of PHED, Govt. of West Bengal for arsenic prone areas.

The treatment and disposal of wastewaters is becoming more and more important as ever increasing population and urbanization threaten existing potable water supplies in many areas of the world. Worldwide natural wetlands are still used for watewater treatment but at present, the use of constructed wetlands is becoming more popular and effective around the world.

The paper discusses some low cost and energy saving technologies for water and wastewater treatment.

This paper deals with studies on the removal of fluoride by using bark of drumstick and its leaves. The above said adsorbents are effective defluoridating agents and therefore used in the diet through cooked leaves and its vegetables. 2007

This paper deals with a comparative study on the fluoride removal capacity of readily and cheaply available five kinds of materials-calcium, phosphate, magnesium and magnesium carbonate. Among these materials aluminium phosphate is the most efficient defluoridating agent. 2007

In the early 1980s, K. C. Saha from the School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata attributed skin lesions in West Bengal, India, to exposure to arsenic in groundwater pumped from shallow tube wells. Despite these findings, millions of tube wells have been
installed across the Bengal Basin, the geological formation that includes West Bengal and Bangladesh, and across river floodplains and deltas in southern Asia.