Hydrochemical investigation of groundwater contamination in an urban area of Beijing aquifer: Impact of irrigation with industrial waste water

African Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 6, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 6555-6562

  Mande, Seyf Laye Alfa Sika ^a,b   Liu, Mingzhu ^a   Djaneye Boundjou, Gbandi ^b   Liu, Fei ^b   Kamaletdinova, Lyutsiya ^a   Bawa, Moctar Limam ^b   Chen, Honghan ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES BEIJING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOMÉ   (Togo)

Author keywords

Contamination; Groundwater; Hydrochemica; Multivariate statistical; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255193278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1991637X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1233     Document Type: Article

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