Arsenic concentration variability, health risk assessment, and source identification using multivariate analysis in selected villages of public water system, Lahore, Pakistan

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1241-1251

  Sultana, Jawairia ^a   Farooqi, Abida ^a   Ali, Usman ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenic variability; Correlation; Groundwater; Health risk; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84893068338     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3453-3     Document Type: Article

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