Development of an overall index of pollution for surface water based on a general classification scheme in Indian context

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-67

  Sargaonkar, Aabha ^a   Deshpande, Vijaya ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Criteria; Overall index of pollution; Standards; Value function curves; Water quality

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING; SURFACE WATERS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

POLLUTION INDEX;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EUROPE; INDIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLOTS AND CURVES; RIVER; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

INDIA; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0142244260     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025886025137     Document Type: Article

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