Evaluation of groundwater environment of Kathmandu valley

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1329-1342

  Pandey, Vishnu Prasad ^a   Chapagain, Saroj Kumar ^a   Kazama, Futaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

DPSIR; Groundwater environment; Groundwater level; Kathmandu Valley; Recharge

Indexed keywords

DRIVING FORCES; GROUND WATER LEVEL; GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT; GROUNDWATER ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER MODELING; KATHMANDU; KNOWLEDGE BASE; POPULATION DENSITIES; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; URBAN POPULATION; WATER EXTRACTION; WELL YIELD;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; RECHARGE; URBANIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

KATHMANDU VALLEY; NEPAL;

EID: 77954037100     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0263-6     Document Type: Article

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