Untreated Surface Water Quality and Health Risks from Northeast India

Twenty-five water samples collected from hospital areas, residential areas, and rivers in Northeast India provide evidence of public health risks. The dataset likely contains geochemical, microbial, and exposome analyses, including concentrations of lead, selenium, total dissolved solids, turbidity, metagenomic taxa abundances, and detected compounds. Gayatri Gogoi published this dataset on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between pollutants and microbial taxa based on exposome profiling and metagenomic sequencing
• Compare chemical contamination levels across different anthropogenic influence zones based on geochemical profiling
• Assess the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in residential wastewater based on reported gene counts
• Identify potential carcinogenic compounds in surface water based on exposome profiling results

Strengths

• Includes multi-modal analysis combining geochemical, microbial, and exposome data
• Provides specific concentration measurements for contaminants like lead (0.9 mg/L) and selenium (0.45 mg/L)
• Identifies 490 compounds via exposome profiling, including 30 carcinogens

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is limited to 25 samples from a specific region, representing a small-scale study

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic wastewater surveillance involving water sample collection, geochemical profiling, metagenomic sequencing, and exposome profiling.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 00:05:03; freshness should be verified

Geography

Northeast India