Assessment of groundwater vulnerability to pollution in dire dawa, Ethiopia using drastic

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1485-1496

  Tilahun, Ketema ^a,b   Merkel, Broder J ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dire dawa; DRASTIC; Ethiopia

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NITRATES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AQUIFER VULNERABILITY; DIRE DAWA; DRASTIC; ETHIOPIA; GROUND WATER PROTECTION; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; NITRATE CONCENTRATION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ARCVIEW; BOREHOLE; CLAY SOIL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATE; RECHARGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMIARID REGION; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DIRE DAWA; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77951157676     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0134-1     Document Type: Article

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