Lessons learned from the 2013 Calgary flood: Assessing risk of drinking water well contamination

Applied Geography

Volumn 80, Issue , 2017, Pages 78-85

  Eccles, Kristin M ^a,b   Checkley, Sylvia ^a,b   Sjogren, Darren ^a   Barkema, Herman W ^a   Bertazzon, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Calgary; Flood; Geographically weighted regression; Spatial analysis; Water quality; Water well

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FLOOD; HEALTH RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WELL WATER;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 85013026908     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.02.005     Document Type: Article

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