1. Large Groundwater Strontium Flux to the Oceans from the Bengal Basin and the Marine Strontium Isotope Record
2. Arsenic poisoning of Bangladesh groundwater
3. “National water plan project final report: Volume 2 Resources; chapter 10 water resources” (Ministry of Irrigation Government of Bangladesh Dhaka 1986) pp. 2 and 82.
4. British Geologic Survey Department of Public Health Engineering Government of Bangladesh Mott MacDonald Ltd. Groundwater Studies for Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh. Phase I: Rapid Investigation Phase main report and five supplementary volumes (1999; www.bgs.ac.uk/arsenic/bphase1/b_intro.htm).
5. Darcy's law for fresh groundwater outflow Q at the coast is Q = WBKi where W is the coast length (500 km) B is an upper limit on the aquifer thickness (200 m) K is an upper limit for hydraulic conductivity (10 −3 m/s) and i is the gradient.