Assessment on seasonal variation of groundwater quality of phreatic aquifers - A river basin system

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 45-57

  Laluraj, C M ^a   Gopinath, Girish ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Groundwater quality; Phreatic aquifers; Preand post monsoon periods; River basin

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER QUALITY; PHREATIC AQUIFERS; PREAND POST MONSOON PERIODS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ACIDITY; AQUIFERS; CLIMATOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; PH; RIVERS; WATER ANALYSIS;

WATER QUALITY;

FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER; IRON;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; PHREATIC ZONE; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ACIDITY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INDIA; PH; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORIDES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; RIVERS; SEASONS; WATER;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33747517628     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-7675-5     Document Type: Article

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