Seasonal bacteriological analysis of Gola river water contaminated with pulp paper mill waste in Uttaranchal, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 393-406

  Chandra, Ram ^a   Singh, Shail ^a   Raj, Abhay ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bacteriological analysis; Coliforms; Physico chemical parameters; Pulp paper effluent; River water; Seasonal

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PULP PAPER MILL WASTE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

COLIFORM BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; HEALTH HAZARDS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER BACTERIOLOGY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CHLORIDE; LIGNIN; NITRATE; PHENOL; POTASSIUM; RIVER WATER; SODIUM; SULFATE;

BACTERIOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EFFLUENT; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT TOLERANCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER METHOD; NONHUMAN; PLATE COUNT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULP MILL; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUMMER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WINTER;

CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NITRATES; PAPER; PHENOLS; PHOSPHATES; RIVERS; SEASONS; SODIUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; UTTARANCHAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 33748185657     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-1508-4     Document Type: Article

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