Hydrogeochemical characteristics and groundwater contamination in the rapid urban development areas of Coimbatore, India

Water Resources and Industry

Volumn 17, Issue , 2017, Pages 26-33

  Selvakumar, S ^a   Chandrasekar, N ^a   Kumar, G ^b  

^a MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b VEL TECH RANGARAJAN DR SAGUNTHALA R D INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Groundwater quality; Hydrochemical facies; Multivariate analysis; Singanallur; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; HAZARDS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IRRIGATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEWAGE; URBAN GROWTH; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROCHEMICAL FACIES; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; SINGANALLUR;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

COIMBATORE; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 85013224789     PISSN: 22123717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wri.2017.02.002     Document Type: Article

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