Monitoring the impact of urban effluents on mineral contents of water and sediments of four sites of the river Ravi, Lahore

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 9705-9715

  Shakir, Hafiz Abdullah ^a,b   Qazi, Javed Iqbal ^a   Chaudhry, Abdul Shakoor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrophotometer; Flow seasons; Minerals; River water; Sediment; Urban pollutants

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETER; FLOW SEASONS; INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGES; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; RIVER WATER; RIVER WATER POLLUTIONS; RIVERBED SEDIMENTS; URBAN POLLUTANTS;

EFFLUENTS; FISH; LEAD; MANGANESE; MINERALS; NICKEL; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW; URBAN GROWTH; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

RIVERS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MINERAL; NICKEL; ZINC;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; URBAN AREA; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; MINERALS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

LAHORE; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; RAVI RIVER;

EID: 84890121591     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3284-2     Document Type: Article

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