Spatial patterns, potential sources, and health risks of heavy metals in pore and fissure groundwater: A Monte Carlo-based assessment in northern Hebei, China.
In industrialized regions, groundwater contamination by heavy metals exhibits significant spatial heterogeneity and poses a sustained threat to human health. This study focuses on a typical heavy industrial agglomeration area in northern Hebei Province. Based on 199 groundwater samples, a comparative health-risk assess...