Determination of water quality deterioration at pilgrimage centre along river Netravathi, Mangalore using WQI Approach

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-131

  Avvannavar, Santosh M ^a   Shrihari, Surathkal ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Bhargava s WQI; Harmonic mean WQI; Pilgrimage; Water quality index

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751521535     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2007.017     Document Type: Article

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