Groundwater nitrate pollution and human health risk assessment by using HHRA model in an agricultural area, NE China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 137, Issue , 2017, Pages 130-142

  Zhai, Yuanzheng ^a   Zhao, Xiaobing ^a   Teng, Yanguo ^a   Li, Xiao ^b   Zhang, Junjun ^a   Wu, Jin ^a   Zuo, Rui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater chemistry; Health risk assessment; Nitrate pollution; Northeast China; Songnen Plain

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORINE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; MAGNESIUM; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SULFATE; FERTILIZER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MODELING; NITRATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INFANT; MALE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; WATER POLLUTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHINA; CITIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRATES; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84999748061     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2016.11.010     Document Type: Article

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