Use of fuzzy synthetic evaluation for assessment of groundwater quality for drinking usage: A case study of Southern Haryana, India

Environmental Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 249-255

  Singh, Bhupinder ^a   Dahiya, Sudhir ^b   Jain, Sandeep ^a   Garg, V K ^a   Kushwaha, H S ^b  

^a GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Degree of certainty; Desirable; Fuzzy rule; Fuzzy set; Linguistic terms; Membership function; Water quality

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; GROUNDWATER; POTABLE WATER; WATER RESOURCES;

FUZZY SYNTHETIC EVALUATION; LINGUISTIC TERMS; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL QUALITY; REGULATORY BODIES;

WATER QUALITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING WATER; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GROUNDWATER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; WATER QUALITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; GURGAON; HARYANA; INDIA; SOHNA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 39449131896     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0812-9     Document Type: Article

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