Seasonal variation in the microbial quality of shallow groundwater in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 390-397

  Shrestha, Sadhana ^a   Nakamura, Takashi ^a   Malla, Rabin ^b   Nishida, Kei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Center of Research for Environment Energy and Water CREEW   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Kathmandu Valley; Microbial pollution; Seasonal variation; Shallow groundwater

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; INFILTRATION; LANDFORMS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL;

DRY AND WET SEASONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); KATHMANDU; MICROBIAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROBIAL POLLUTION; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CONCRETE; GROUND WATER; RAIN; RIVER WATER; RUNOFF;

FECES; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INFILTRATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DILUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL COLIFORM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPTIC TANK; SEWER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TABLE;

KATHMANDU VALLEY; NEPAL;

EID: 84903159957     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2013.213     Document Type: Article

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