Author(s)

Khageshwar Singh Patel^1*, Dhananjay Sahu¹, Nohar Singh Dahariya¹, Bharat Lal Sahu¹, Shobhana Ramteke¹, Borislav Blazhev², Laurent Matini³, Eduardo Yubero⁴, Jan Hoinkis⁵

¹School of Studies in Chemistry/Environmental Science, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India.
²Central Laboratory for Chemical Testing and Control, Sofia, Bulgaria.
³Department of Exact Sciences, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Congo.
⁴Applied Physics Department, Miguel Hernandez University, Elche, Spain.
⁵Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany.

At least 15% of 0.1 million people residing in 117 villages of Tamnar block (Chhattisgarh, central India) are suffering from fluorosis diseases. In this work, the contamination of F^- in the environment (i.e. water, soil, rock and urine) of the Tamnar block is described. The concentration variations of F^-, Cl^-, NO₃^-, SO₄^2-, Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Al, Mn, Fe and Zn in the groundwater are reported. The F^- content in the water was ranged from 1.7 - 17 mg/L with mean value of 9.0 ± 3.7 mg/L. Fluoride was enriched up to 3-, 54-, 69- and 244-folds in the urine, soil, dust and rock, respectively. The cluster and factor analysis models were used to apportion sources of F^- and other elements in the water.

Fluoride, Contamination, Groundwater, Soil, Rock, India

Patel, K. , Sahu, D. , Dahariya, N. , Sahu, B. , Ramteke, S. , Blazhev, B. , Matini, L. , Yubero, E. and Hoinkis, J. (2015) Contamination of Water, Dust, Soil, Rock and Urine with Fluoride in Central India. Journal of Environmental Protection, 6, 1347-1359. doi: 10.4236/jep.2015.612117.