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• TITLE: Geogenic Pollution of Groundwater Quality in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka: A Case Study of Groundwater Acidification from Rathupaswala

  AUTHORS: Ishara Pathirage, Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha, S. P. Sucharitha Bandara, G. W. A. Rohan Fernando

  KEYWORDS: Groundwater Acidification, Acid Sulphate Soils (AAS), Ion Chromatography, Groundwater Quality

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Geosciences, Vol.15 No.8, August 29, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Over recent decades, Gampaha district, Sri Lanka, has experienced significant urbanisation and industrial growth, increasing groundwater demand due to limited and polluted surface water resources. In 2013, a community uprising in Rathupaswala, a village in Gampaha district, accused a latex glove manufacturing factory of causing groundwater acidity (pH