Assessment of the effects of municipal sewage, immersed idols and boating on the heavy metal and other elemental pollution of surface water of the eutrophic Hussainsagar Lake (Hyderabad, India)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1991-2000

  Reddy, M Vikram ^a   Babu, K Sagar ^a   Balaram, V ^b   Satyanarayanan, M ^b  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Allochthonous inputs; Boating; Major cations; Potential toxic elements; Toxic elements; Untreated industrial effluents

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONOUS INPUTS; BOATING; ELEMENTAL CONTAMINANTS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; EXTERNAL INPUT; HYDERABAD; HYDERABAD , INDIA; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; LAKE WATERS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; TOXIC ELEMENTS; TREATED EFFLUENT; URBAN LAKE;

EFFLUENTS; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; LEAD; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); OUTFALLS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SILICON; STRONTIUM; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BORON; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; COBALT; COPPER; DRINKING WATER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; SILICON; SILVER; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; SURFACE WATER; VANADIUM; ZINC;

BOATING; CATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE WATER; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICITY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INDIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER STANDARD;

CITIES; INDIA; LAKES; METALS, HEAVY; SEWAGE; SHIPS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANDHRA PRADESH; HUSSAIN LAKE; HYDERABAD [ANDHRA PRADESH]; INDIA;

EID: 84862843424     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2094-7     Document Type: Article

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