Quality of tube well water intended for irrigation and human consumption with special emphasis on arsenic contamination at the area of Punjab, Pakistan

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 847-863

  Rasool, Atta ^a,b   Xiao, Tangfu ^a   Farooqi, Abida ^c   Shafeeque, Muhammad ^d   Liu, Yizhang ^a   Kamran, Muhammad Aqeel ^e   Katsoyiannis, Ioannis A ^f   Eqani, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^g NONE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Health risk; Irrigation; Pakistan; Source apportionment; Tube well water

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRRIGATION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WELL WATER;

PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

ARSENIC; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; MAGNESIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CARBONATE; WELL WATER;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PAKISTAN; STANDARDS; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ARSENIC; BICARBONATES; CALCIUM; CARBONATES; CHLORIDES; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; PAKISTAN; SODIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER WELLS;

EID: 84978831989     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: 15732983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-016-9855-8     Document Type: Article

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