Impact of pit-toilet leachate on groundwater chemistry and role of vadose zone in removal of nitrate and E. coli pollutants in Kolar District, Karnataka, India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 927-938

  Rao, Sudhakar M ^a   Sekhar, M ^a   Raghuveer Rao, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

E. coli; Groundwater; Nitrate; Pit toilets; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; E. COLI; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; PIT TOILETS; UNSATURATED PERMEABILITIES; VADOSE ZONE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFILTRATION; LEACHATE; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RECHARGE; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

INDIA; KARNATAKA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84872838701     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1794-9     Document Type: Article

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