Shallow groundwater in a middle mountain catchment of Nepal: Quantity and quality issues

Environmental Geology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-229

  Dongol, Bhawani S ^a   Merz, Juerg ^b   Schaffner, Monika ^b   Nakarmi, Gopal ^a   Shah, Pravakar B ^a   Shrestha, Smita K ^a   Dangol, Pradeep M ^a   Dhakal, Madhav P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dug well; Low flow; Middle mountains; Nepal; Shallow groundwater; Water quality; Water table

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIOLOGY; POTABLE WATER; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER WELLS;

DUG WELL; LOW FLOW; MIDDLE MOUNTAINS; NEPAL; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; WATER TABLES;

CATCHMENTS;

GROUNDWATER; MOUNTAIN REGION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 28344440131     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-005-0064-5     Document Type: Article

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