Drinking water quality in the Ethiopian section of the East African Rift Valley I - Data and health aspects

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 311, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 65-80

  Reimann, Clemens ^a   Bjorvatn, Kjell ^b   Frengstad, Bjørn ^a   Melaku, Zenebe ^c   Tekle Haimanot, Redda ^c   Siewers, Ulrich ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Drinking water quality; East African Rift Valley; Ethiopia; Fluorosis; Multi element analyses; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARDS; POTABLE WATER; SPECTROMETRY;

ION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

WATER QUALITY;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BERYLLIUM; BISMUTH; BORON; BROMINE; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CESIUM; COBALT; DRINKING WATER; DYSPROSIUM; FLUORIDE; HAFNIUM; LUTETIUM; NEODYMIUM; NITRATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PRASEODYMIUM; RIVER WATER; SAMARIUM; SILVER; TANTALUM; TERBIUM; THALLIUM; THORIUM; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; URANIUM; WATER QUALITY;

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH IMPACT; URANIUM; WATER QUALITY;

AFRICA; ALKALINITY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; ETHIOPIA; EUROPE; FLUOROSIS; HEALTH; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TITRIMETRY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; WATER TEMPERATURE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ETHIOPIA; RIFT VALLEY;

ILEX COOKII; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC);

EID: 0037785069     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(03)00137-2     Document Type: Article

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