Contamination Study of Water, Soil and Wheat to Arsenic of the Bijar Region

Document Type : Original Articles

Authors

1 Assistant professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Razi, Kermanshah

2 MSc. of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Razi, Kermanshah

3 Associate professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Razi, Kermanshah

Abstract

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element which pose a potential risk to groundwater quality, as well as food safety through As transportation in soil-water-plant systems. Therefore, plants such as cereal are the main way of As transportation to the food chain. In this study, to evaluate the arsenic transfer rate in agricultural products and the risk of its poisoning, surface water, soil and wheat samples were collected from the Bijar County, which has a history of naturally occurring arsenic pollution. The As concentration of surface water and soil samples are in ranged of 0.52-484.64 μg/L and 138.2 to 1775.2 mg/kg respectively. Also some physico-chemical parameters of water and soil which had direct effects on As pollution were estimated. The As concentration of wheat shoot samples were between 1.79-30.58 mg/kg and As concentration of wheat seed samples were 0.003-0.08 mg/kg. Based on these results, arsenic levels in waters and soils were significantly correlated, but arsenic accumulation in wheat samples were not correlated significantly with soil arsenic concentration.

Keywords

References

  1. Mahzuz H M A, Alam R, Alam N M, Basak R, Islam S M. Use of arsenic contaminated sludge in making ornamental bricks. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Tech.; 2009; 6(2): 291- 298.
  2. Villa-Lojo M C, Rodriguez E, Mahia P L, Mnuiategui M S, Rodriguez D P. Coupled high performance liquid chromatography–microwave digestion–hydride generation–atomic absorption spectrometry for inorganic and organic arsenic speciation in fish tissue. Talanta.; 2002; 57: 741-775.
  3. Babel S, Opiso E M. Removal of Cr from synthetic wastewater by sorption into volcanic ash soil. Int. J. Environ.Sci. Tech.; 2007; 4: 99-108..
  4. Smith A H, Hopenhayn-Rich C, Bates M N, Goeden H M, Hertz-Picciotto I, Dagga H M, Woo R, Kosett M J, Smith M T. Cancer Risks from Arsenic in drinking water. J. Environmental Health Properties; 1992; 97: 259-267.
  5. Jack C N, Wang J, Shraim A A. Global health problem caused by arsenic from natural sources. Chemosphere; 2003; 52: 1353-1359.
  6. Abedin M J, Feldmann J, Meharg A A. Uptake kinetics of arsenic species in rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants. Plant Physiol; 2002; 128: 1120-1128.
  7. Williams P N, Price A H, Raab A, Hossain S A, Feldmann J, Meharg A A. Variation in arsenic speciation and concentration in paddy rice related to dietary exposure. Environmental Science & Technology; 2005; 39: 5531–5540.
  8. Mosaferi M, Yunesian M, Mesdaghinia A R, Nadim A, Nasseri S, Mahvi A H. Occurrence of arsenic in Kurdistan Province of Iran. In BUET-UNU international symposium, international training network center. Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tokyo; 2003.
  9. Ghassemzadeh F, Arbab-Zavar M H, Hosein M, Geoffrey M. Arsenic and Antimony in Drinking water in Kohsorkh Area, Northeast Iran Possible Risks for the public Health. Journal of Applied Sciences; 2006; 6(13): 2705-2714.
  10. Zandsalimi S, Karimei N, Kohandel A. Arsenic in soil, vegetation and water of a contaminated region. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology; 2011; 8: 331-338.
  11. Wang L, Duan G. Effect of external and internal phosphate status on arsenic toxicity and accumulation in rice seedlings. Journal of Environmental Sciences; 2009; 21: 345-351.
  12. Pigna M, Cozzolino V, Violante A, Meharg A A. Influence of Phosphate on the Arsenic Uptake by Wheat (Triticum durum L.) Irrigated with Arsenic Solutions at Three Different Concentrations. Water Air Soil Pollut; 2008; 197: 371–380.
  13. Kazemi-Arbat H. Morphology and Anatomy of Cereal Crops. Tabriz, Iran, Tabriz University publishing; 2008. P. 553. [In Persian].
  14. Mosaferi M, Yunesian M, Mesdaghinia A R, Nasseri S, Mahvi A H, Nadim H. Correlation between arsenic concentration of drinking water and hair. Iran J. Environ. Health Sci. Eng; 2005; 2: 11-23.
  15. Fathi-hafeshjani Z, Lotfi M, Sayyareh A R. Arsenic contamination of ground mine in West Bijar. The 30th National Earth Science Conference, Geological Survey of Iran. 2011. [In Persian].
  16. APHA, AWWA, WEF. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. 18th edition. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation. Washington DC., USA; 1992.
  17. Bouyoucos G H. A Recalibration of the Hydrometer for making Mechanical Analysis of Soils. Agronomy; 1951; 43: 438.
  18. Storer D A. A simple high sample volumeashing procedure for determining soil organicmatter. Comm. Soil Sci. Plant Anal; 1984; 15: 759-772.
  19. Olsen S R, Cole C V, Watanabe F S, Dean L A. Estimation of available phosphorus in soils by extraction with sodium bicarbonate. Circular, US: Department of Agriculture; 1954. P. 939.
  20. Meharg A A, Jardine L. Arsenite transport into paddy rice (Oryza sativa) roots. New Phytol; 2003; 157: 39-44.
  21. World Health Organization. Arsenic in drinking water. Fact sheet No. 210, http://www.who.in/inffslen/fact210. (assessed: June 17, 1999).
  22. Ghadimi S, Tale-Fazel A, Moghimi H, Najmi Z. Element distribution of arsenic in the sediment of Divandareh county by surfur software; The 29th National Earth Science Conference, Geological Survey of Iran. 2010. [In Persian].
  23. Mohamadi M. Soil Science. Tehran, Iran, Sepehr publishing; 2005. P. 245. [In Persian].
  24. Zhang W D, Tian J C, He F L. Toxicity and accumulation of arsenic in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) varieties of China. FYTON; 2009; 78: 147-154.
  25. Sheppard S C. Summary of phytotoxic levels of soil arsenic. Water Air Soil Pollut; 1992; 64: 539-550.
  26. Davis A, Sherwin D, Ditmars R, Hoenke K A. An analysis of soil arsenic records of decision. Environ. Sci.Tech.; 2001; 35: 2401-2406.
  27. Yang, Q. Effect of arsenic on growth of wheat. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 1992; 2: 23-25.
  28. Meharg A A, Hartley-Whitaker J. Arsenic uptake and metebolism in arsenic resistant and nonresistant plant species. New Phytol; 2002; 154: 29-1879.
  29. Meharg A A, Mcnair M R. The mechanisms of arsenate tolerance in Drschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv. and Agrostis capillaris L.; new Phytol; 1991; 119: 291-298.
  30. Liu Q, Hu C, Tan Q, Sun X, Su J, Liang Y. Effects of As on As uptake, speciation, and nutrient uptake by winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under hydroponic conditions. Journal of Environmental Sciences; 2008; 20: 326-331.

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics