High fluoride incidence in groundwater and its potential health effects in parts of Raigarh District, Chhattisgarh, India

Current Science

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 750-754

  Beg, M K ^a,b   Srivastav, S K ^a   Carranza, E J M ^c   de Smeth, J B ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING   (India)

^b Chhattisgarh Remote Sensing Applications Centre   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fluoride; Groundwater; Health risk; Preventive measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953045963     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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