Health Risk Assessment of Metals in Surface Water from Freshwater Source Lakes, Pakistan

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1530-1543

  Iqbal, Javed ^a   Shah, Munir H ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

metal; multivariate analysis; Pakistan lakes; risk analysis; water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880430757     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.716681     Document Type: Article

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