Groundwater vulnerability assessment using DRASTIC and Pesticide DRASTIC models in intense agriculture area of the Gangetic plains, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8741-8763

  Saha, Dipankar ^a   Alam, Fakhre ^a  

^a CENTRAL GROUND WATER BOARD   (India)

Author keywords

Aquifers; DRASTIC; Gangetic plains; Groundwater pollution; India; Vulnerability mapping

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CULTIVATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PESTICIDES; WATER LEVELS;

DRASTIC; GANGETIC PLAINS; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; INDIA; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; VEGETABLE CULTIVATION; VULNERABILITY MAPPINGS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; PESTICIDE; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; PROCEDURES; SOIL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; INDIA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PESTICIDES; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84928611139     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4041-x     Document Type: Article

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