Current and future trends in fecal source tracking and deployment in the Lake Taihu Region of China

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 9-11, 2011, Pages 352-359

  Hagedorn, Charles ^a   Liang, Xinqiang ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fecal; Lake Taihu Region; Microbial; Source tracking; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; BASELINE MONITORING; CHEMICAL SOURCES; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; CRITICAL REVIEW; DIRECT MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; FECAL; FECAL COLIFORMS; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FECAL INDICATORS; FECAL SAMPLES; FECAL SOURCES; FUTURE TRENDS; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN PATHOGENS; IN-FIELD; LABORATORY STUDIES; LAKE TAIHU; LAKE TAIHU REGION; MASS LOADINGS; MICROBIAL; PATHOGEN MONITORING; POLLUTED WATER; PRIVATE SECTORS; PROBABILITY ANALYSIS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS; REGULATORY AGENCIES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOURCE TRACKING; STANDARD METHOD; WATERBODIES; WATERSHED ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CONTAMINATION; HEALTH RISKS; LAKES; MONITORING; PATHOGENS; SEWAGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMARKER; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH RISK; LABORATORY METHOD; LAKE POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATHOGEN; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRACKING; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; TAIHU LAKE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79958796788     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.03.031     Document Type: Article

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