Water quality assessment and determination of pollution sources along the Axios/Vardar River, Southeastern Europe

Desalination

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 159-173

  Milovanovic, Mimoza ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental problems; Heavy metals; Nutrients; Pollution sources

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HEAVY METALS; RIVERS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGE; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

WATER POLLUTION;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HEAVY METALS; RIVERS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIUM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AXIOS RIVER; BALKANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34347327185     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2006.06.022     Document Type: Article

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