Hexavalent chromium contamination in groundwaters of Thiva Basin, Central Greece

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1073-1077

  Tziritis, Evangelos ^a   Kelepertzis, Efstratios ^b   Korres, George ^b   Perivolaris, Dimitrios ^b   Repani, Stella ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central Greece; Groundwater contamination; Hexavalent chromium; Thiva

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; CENTRAL GREECE; ELEVATED LEVEL; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HEALTH EFFECTS; HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM; HUMAN CONSUMPTION; SECOND GROUP; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; THIVA;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CHROMIUM;

CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM HEXAVALENT ION; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHROMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; GROUNDWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84867574523     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-012-0831-4     Document Type: Article

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