Arsenic and Heavy Metal Concentrations in Drinking Water in Pakistan and Risk Assessment: A Case Study

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1020-1031

  Khan, Sardar ^a   Shah, Irfan Ali ^a   Muhammad, Said ^b   Malik, Riffat Naseem ^c   Shah, Mohammad Tahir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^b Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

average daily intake; cancer risk; drinking water; hazard quotient; Nowshera District; statistical analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919842155     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2014.950925     Document Type: Article

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