An innovative approach of Drinking Water Quality Index-A case study from Southern Tamil Nadu, India

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 857-868

  Ramesh, S ^a   Sukumaran, N ^a   Murugesan, A G ^a   Rajan, M P ^b  

^a MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Drinking Water Quality Index; Min Max operator; Southern Tamil Nadu; Sub index equations

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; DATA SETS; DRINKING WATER QUALITY; INDEX EQUATIONS; INDEXING SYSTEMS; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; MIN-MAX OPERATOR; QUALITY EVALUATION; TAMIL NADU; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

GROUNDWATER; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POTABLE WATER; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESEARCH; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DRINKING WATER; GEOMETRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 77649338639     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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