Assessment of hydrochemical trends in the highly anthropised Guadalhorce River basin (southern Spain) in terms of compliance with the European groundwater directive for 2015

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 15990-16005

  Urresti Estala, Begoña ^a   Gavilán, Pablo Jiménez ^a   Pérez, Iñaki Vadillo ^a   Cantos, Francisco Carrasco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Groundwater bodies; Guadalhorce River basin; Mann Kendall test; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER POLLUTION; COMPLIANCE; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; NITRATE; NUMERICAL METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SALINIZATION; TESTING METHOD; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ANDALUCIA; GUADALHORCE BASIN; MALAGA [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN;

FERTILIZER; GROUND WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; RIVER; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; NITRATES; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84965060795     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6662-9     Document Type: Article

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