Development of water quality index (WQI) for gorganrood river

International Journal of Environmental Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1041-1046

  Karbassi, R A ^a   Mir Mohammad Hosseini, F ^a   Baghvand, A ^a   Nazariha, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Expert choice software (EC); Team decision making; Water quality index (WQI)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING WATER; SOFTWARE; WATER QUALITY;

GOLESTAN; GORGAN RIVER; IRAN;

EID: 80053353950     PISSN: 17356865     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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