Environmental impacts of wastewater irrigation on groundwater quality - A case study of Ajmer city, Rajasthan (India)

Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 760-766

  Meena, Manoj Kumar ^a   Dutta, Subroto ^a   Pradhan, Rashmi ^a  

^a M D S UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ground water; Heavy metal and piper trilinear diagram

Indexed keywords

PIPERACEAE;

EID: 77958505551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15794377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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