Evaluation of groundwater quality in the Chotanagpur plateau region of the Subarnarekha river basin, Jharkhand State, India

Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-74

  Gautam, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Maharana, Chinmaya ^a   Sharma, Divya ^a   Singh, Abhay K ^b   Tripathi, Jayant K ^a   Singh, Sudhir Kumar ^c  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Heavy metals; Hydrogeochemistry; Synthetic pollution index; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947611695     PISSN: 22126139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.swaqe.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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