Water quality, potential conflicts and solutions—an upstream–downstream analysis of the transnational Zarafshan River (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 743-763

  Groll, M ^a   Opp, Chr ^a   Kulmatov, R ^b   Ikramova, M ^c   Normatov, I ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF UZBEKISTAN   (Uzbekistan)

^c Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration   (Uzbekistan)

^d Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tadzhikistan   (Tajikistan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Irrigation; IWRM; Water availability; Water quality; Zarafshan

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CHROMATES; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DETERIORATION; ECONOMICS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; IRRIGATION; LAND USE; PETROLEUM ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE WATER; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; IWRM; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; ZARAFSHAN;

RIVERS;

EID: 84920705896     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2988-5     Document Type: Article

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