Evaluation of water quality pollution indices for heavy metal contamination monitoring: A case study from Curtin Lake, Miri City, East Malaysia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1987-2001

  Prasanna, M V ^a   Praveena, S M ^b   Chidambaram, S ^c   Nagarajan, R ^a   Elayaraja, A ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Curtin Lake; Degree of contamination; Heavy metal pollution index; Principal component analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CADMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; LAKES; METAL ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL PURPOSE; ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; HEAVY METAL EVALUATIONS; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; MAXIMUM ADMISSIBLE CONCENTRATION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WATER QUALITY POLLUTION;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORRELATION; HEAVY METAL; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; WATER QUALITY;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; MIRI; SARAWAK;

EID: 84869159747     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1639-6     Document Type: Article

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