A GIS-based evaluation of risks due to trihalomethane exposure during showering in coastal Texas

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 551-564

  Venkataraman, Kartik ^a   Uddameri, Venkatesh ^a  

^a Texas AandM University Kingsville   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; GIS; Groundwater; Inhalation; Risk assessment; Texas Gulf Coast; Trihalomethanes; Water resource planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HEALTH RISKS; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

GEO-STATISTICS; GULF COAST; INHALATION; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER RESOURCE PLANNING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84868593922     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-011-0415-8     Document Type: Article

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