Evaluation of groundwater quality in Madurai City, South India for drinking, irrigation and construction purposes

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3093-3107

  Sivasankar, V ^a   Omine, Kiyoshi ^b   Msagati, T A M ^e   kumar, M Senthil ^c   Chandramohan, A ^d  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SETHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d BISHOP HEBER COLLEGE   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amaithisolai; Groundwater quality; LSI; Tirunagar; WQI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904894154     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-0994-2     Document Type: Article

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