River water quality assessment using environmentric techniques: Case study of Jakara River Basin

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5630-5644

  Mustapha, Adamu ^a   Aris, Ahmad Zaharin ^a   Juahir, Hafizan ^a   Ramli, Mohammad Firuz ^a   Kura, Nura Umar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Jakara Basin; Partial correlation; Principal component analysis; Water quality variation

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIA; BANK EROSION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMESTIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BANK; RIVER BASIN; RIVER WATER; SALINITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMISTRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MALAYSIA; PH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALAYSIA; METALS, HEAVY; OXYGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

JAKARA RIVER; KANO [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

EID: 84880598020     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1542-z     Document Type: Article

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