Microbiological water quality along the Danube River: Integrating data from two whole-river surveys and a transnational monitoring network

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3673-3684

  Kirschner, Alexander K T ^a   Kavka, Gerhard G ^b   Velimirov, Branko ^a   Mach, Robert L ^c   Sommer, Regina ^a   Farnleitner, Andreas H ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Austrian Federal Agency for Water Management   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Danube; Faecal indicators; Joint Danube Survey; Microbiological pollution

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

DANUBE; DANUBE RIVER BASIN; DANUBE RIVERS; FECAL INDICATORS; FECAL POLLUTION; JOINT DANUBE SURVEY; MICROBIOLOGICAL POLLUTIONS; MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY; MONITORING NETWORK; RIVER DANUBE;

SURVEYS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CATCHMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FECES; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITORING SYSTEM; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; EUROPE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

DANUBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67651108986     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.05.034     Document Type: Article

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