Monitoring and management issues of heavy metal pollution of Gombak River, Kuala Lumpur

International Journal of Physical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 7961-7968

  Ismail, Zubaidah ^a   Primasari, Budhi ^a   Shirazi, Sharif Moniruzzaman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Heavy metal pollution; Pollutant source; Remedial method; Urban river

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455189486     PISSN: 19921950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.764     Document Type: Article

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