Approaches to groundwater vulnerability to pollution: A literature review

Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-115

  Iqbal, Jawed ^a   Gorai, A K ^a   Tirkey, Poonam ^a   Pathak, Gopal ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Groundwater; literature review; overlay index; process based simulation; statistical method; vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861355980     PISSN: 09729860     EISSN: 18758568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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