Quantification and health risk assessment due to heavy metals in potable water to the population living in the vicinity of a proposed nuclear power project site in Haryana, India

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 52, Issue 40-42, 2014, Pages 7586-7597

  Yadav, Poonam ^a   Singh, Balvinder ^a   Mor, Suman ^b   Garg, V K ^a  

^a GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrophotometer; Chronic daily intake; Groundwater pollution; Health risk index; Heavy metal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926205441     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.833877     Document Type: Article

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