Pollution of large, subtropical rivers-river kabul, khyber-pakhtun khwa province, Pakistan: Physico-chemical indicators

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 795-808

  Yousafzai, Ali Muhammad ^a   Khan, Abdur Rehman ^b   Shakoori, Abdul Rauf ^c  

^a ISLAMIA COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Laboratories ^*  (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Industrial effluents; River kabul; Warsak dam

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER POLLUTION; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; SEWAGE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER QUALITY;

KABUL RIVER; PAKISTAN;

EID: 77957304623     PISSN: 00309923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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