Assessment of groundwater quality of Lakshimpur district of Bangladesh using water quality indices, geostatistical methods, and multivariate analysis

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Bhuiyan, Mohammad Amir Hossain ^a,f   Bodrud Doza, Md ^a   Islam, A R M Towfiqul ^b,c   Rakib, M A ^c   Rahman, M Safiur ^d,e   Ramanathan, A L ^f  

^a JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c BEGUM ROKEYA UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ATOMIC ENERGY CENTER   (Bangladesh)

^f JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Geostatistical methods; Groundwater quality index; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FISH; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS; METAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

BANGLADESH; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER QUALITY INDICES; HEAVY METAL EVALUATIONS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION MAP; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METAL; INDEX METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84975807247     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-5823-y     Document Type: Article

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