Origin and assessment of groundwater pollution and associated health risk: A case study in an industrial park, northwest China

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 693-712

  Li, Peiyue ^a,b   Wu, Jianhua ^a,b   Qian, Hui ^a,b   Lyu, Xinsheng ^a,b   Liu, Hongwei ^a,b  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy weight; Groundwater pollution; Groundwater quality; Health risk assessment; Heavy metal; Water quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; NITRATES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84903186020     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-013-9590-3     Document Type: Article

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