Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfanin farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-15

  Dalvie, Mohamed A ^a   Cairncross, Eugene ^b   Solomon, Abdullah ^b   London, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Box 1906 ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZINPHOS METHYL; CHLORPYRIFOS; DELTAMETHRIN; DRINKING WATER; ENDOSULFANIN; FENARIMOL; GROUND WATER; IPRODIONE; PENCONAZOLE; PESTICIDE; PROTHIOFOS; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOGRAPHY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PESTICIDE SPRAYING; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; AZINPHOSMETHYL; CHLORPYRIFOS; ENDOSULFAN; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; PESTICIDES; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; THIOPHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

APOGON BRACHYGRAMMUS;

EID: 1642361921     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-2-1     Document Type: Article

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