A modified drinking water quality index (DWQI) for assessing drinking source water quality in rural communities of Khuzestan Province, Iran

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 283-291

  Abtahi, Mehrnoosh ^a   Golchinpour, Najmeh ^b   Yaghmaeian, Kamyar ^b   Rafiee, Mohammad ^c   Jahangiri Rad, Mahsa ^d   Keyani, Alidad ^e   Saeedi, Reza ^f  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e Khuzestan Water and Sewage Company   (Iran)

^f SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Esthetic parameters; Health based parameters; Khuzestan; Water quality; Water resources

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

CANADIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTS; DRINKING SOURCE WATER QUALITIES; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; ESTHETIC PARAMETERS; KHUZESTAN; KHUZESTAN PROVINCES; STANDARD DEVIATION; WATER QUALITY INDEXES;

POTABLE WATER;

BENCHMARKING; CARCINOGEN; DRINKING WATER; INDEX METHOD; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84923805823     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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