Occurrence and delineation of high nitrate contamination in the groundwater of Mithi sub-district, Thar Desert, Pakistan

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Soomro, Faisal ^a   Rafique, Tahir ^b   Michalski, Greg ^c   Azhar Ali, Syed ^a   Naseem, Shahid ^a   Khan, Muhammad Usman ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^b PCSIR LABORATORIES COMPLEX   (Pakistan)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Groundwater; Livestock manure; Nitrate; Thar Desert

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MANURES; POTABLE WATER; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICATES; SODIUM SULFATE; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CONTAMINATED SOILS; LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF WATER; LIVESTOCK MANURE; MINERAL WEATHERING; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE CONTAMINATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; THAR DESERT;

NITRATES;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; NITRATE; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

PAKISTAN; THAR DESERT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85019267238     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-6663-0     Document Type: Article

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