Human factors and tidal influences on water quality of an urban river in Can Tho, a major city of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 845-858

  Ozaki, Hirokazu ^a,c   Co, Thi Kinh ^a,b   Le, Anh Kha ^b   Pham, Viet Nu ^b   Nguyen, Van Be ^b   Tarao, Mitsunori ^a   Nguyen, Huu Chiem ^b   Le, Viet Dung ^b   Nguyen, Hieu Trung ^b   Sagehashi, Masaki ^a,d   Ninomiya Lim, Sachi ^a   Gomi, Takashi ^a   Hosomi, Masaaki ^a   Takada, Hideshige ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare ^*  (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Can Tho; Dilution effect; Flow direction; Household effluent; Water quality of urban canal

Indexed keywords

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; RIVERS; VIETNAM; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84893103903     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3421-y     Document Type: Article

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