Surface water quality contamination source apportionment and physicochemical characterization at the upper section of the Jakara Basin, Nigeria

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4903-4915

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

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; One way analysis of variance; Principal component analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RIVER BASIN; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

NIGERIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84886797654     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0731-2     Document Type: Article

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