Estudio de los niveles de Arsenico (As) en agua de consumo humano en la ciudad de Arequipa 2015-2016

• Autores: Karla Diaz Rodriguez, Yuma Ita Balta, Adolfo Mujica Guzman, Katherine Ramos Caceres, Jeanteh Medina Perez, Jose Villanueva Salas
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Católica de Santa María
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica de Santa María
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.ucsm.edu.pe:article/83
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ucsm.edu.pe/ojs/index.php/veritas/article/view/83
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Agua potable; Arsénico; Estándar de Calidad Ambiental; Agente carcinogénico

The contamination of drinking water for arsenic is a threat for health, because the OMS considered that element like carcinogen. Different countries such as Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Turkey, Taiwan and Peru have natural factors and anthropogenic factors as sources of water contamination. The objective of this study was detected the levels of Arsenic in the province of Arequipa, using a voltamperometric method for its quantification in eight different sources. Of the eight analyzed sources, four exceeded the Environmental Quality Standard (ECA) for water that can be purified with conventional treatment, which establishes a maximum concentration of 10 μg.L^(-1), these were Congata 24.72 μg.L^(-1), Tiabaya 30.72 μg.L^(-1), Sachaca 26.57 μg.L^(-1), Sabandia 37.85 μg.L^(-1). and the other four were between established limits, these were Tomilla I 4.57 μg.L^(-1), Tomilla II 1.47 μg.L^(-1), Bedoya 3.90 μg.L^(-1), Socabaya 1.62 μg.L^(-1).