Contamination of nitrate and fluoride in ground water along the Ganges Alluvial Plain of Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 146, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 375-382

  Sankararamakrishnan, Nalini ^a   Sharma, Ajit Kumar ^a   Iyengar, Leela ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Fluoride; Ground water; Kanpur; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; FLUORIDE MINERALS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; NITRATES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; ANIMAL WASTES; DATA SETS; FLUORIDE; FLUORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION; KANPUR; MARK II; NITRATE; NITRATE-N; NON-POINT SOURCES; POINT SOURCES; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SUMMER MONSOONS; THREE ZONES; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WATER SAMPLES; WINTER SEASONS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER; FLUORIDE; GROUND WATER; NITRATE;

FLUORIDE; NITRATE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; INDIA; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD;

FLUORIDES; FRESH WATER; INDIA; NITRATES;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KANPUR; SOUTH ASIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS;

EID: 53649085927     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0085-5     Document Type: Article

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