@article{IslamulHaq:231362,
      recid = {231362},
      author = {Islam ul Haq, Lt Col and Hanif, Waqas and Hasnain, Ghalib  and Durez, Shahid},
      title = {Socio-economic Impacts on Human Life in Arsenic Affected  Area of Basti Rasul Pur, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan},
      journal = {Sustainable Agriculture Research},
      address = {2012},
      number = {526-2016-37841},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The availability and scarcity of both surface and ground  water alongwith adverse impacts of contaminated water have  become major problems in Pakistan. Groundwater arsenic  contamination in the southern part of the country has  exponentially endangered the human life and complicated the  efforts to provide safe drinking water in the arsenic  contaminated areas. To gauge the adverse impacts amongst  the affected population, household survey in Basti Rasul  Pur district Rahim Yar Khan was conducted on core  socio-economic indicators such as household conditions, sex  ratio, earning sources, literacy, health morbidity, water  borne diseases, drinking water contamination, education,  employment and unemployment, expenditure on hospitalization  for drawing best possible conclusions. Resultantly, sex  ratio observed was about 1.01% for adults and 9.8 % for  children. A total of 77 % water samples were found with  arsenic contamination, due to which 50 % people were found  with arsencosis symptoms and 60% of their earnings were  being spent on hospitalization. Due to poverty and  illiteracy, the entire population was un-aware of the  adverse impacts of drinking water arsenic contamination.  There is a dire need of installation of sustainable  community based arsenic mitigation technologies for  provisioning of safe drinking water to affected community.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/231362},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.231362},
}