Monitoring of the physical parameters and evaluation of the chemical composition of river and groundwater in Calabar (Southeastern Nigeria)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 157, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 243-258

  Edet, Aniekan ^a,b   Worden, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Calabar; Chemical composition; Coastal aquifer; Drinking water quality; Groundwater; Physical properties; River; Season; Tide

Indexed keywords

CALABAR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL AQUIFER; DRINKING WATER QUALITY; SEASON;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RIVERS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

POTABLE WATER;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; RIVER WATER;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL AQUIFER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUNDWATER; NITRATE; REDOX POTENTIAL; RIVER WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; MONITORING; NIGERIA; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORINE; CITIES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NIGERIA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; RIVERS; SEASONS; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS;

AFRICA; CALABAR; CROSS RIVER [(STT) NIGERIA]; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 70349242255     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0532-y     Document Type: Article

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