Assessment of groundwater quality using GIS and CCME WQI techniques: a case study of Thiruthuraipoondi city in Cauvery deltaic region, Tamil Nadu, India

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 57, Issue 26, 2016, Pages 12058-12073

  Venkatramanan, S ^a,b   Chung, S Y ^a   Ramkumar, T ^b   Rajesh, R ^a   Gnanachandrasamy, G ^b  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

CCME WQI; GIS; Groundwater quality; Ordinary kriging; Piper plot; Wilcox diagram

Indexed keywords

DIAGRAM; GIS; GROUNDWATER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KRIGING; SALINE INTRUSION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

CAUVERY DELTA; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84929593624     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2015.1048740     Document Type: Article

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