Using hydrochemical tracers to assess impacts of unsewered urban catchments on hydrochemistry and nutrients in groundwater

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 5860-5878

  Nyenje, P M ^a,b   Foppen, J W ^a   Uhlenbrook, S ^a,c   Lutterodt, G ^d  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Acid rain; Groundwater; Multivariate statistics; Nutrients; Slums; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HOUSING; INFILTRATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NUTRIENTS; PH; POSITIVE IONS; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; SANITATION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TRACERS; WATER QUALITY;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; HYDROCHEMICAL TRACERS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; ON-SITE SANITATION SYSTEMS; SLUMS; UGANDA; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84920281316     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10070     Document Type: Article

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