Assessment of water quality and health risks for toxic trace elements in urban Phewa and remote Gosainkunda lakes, Nepal

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 959-973

  Rupakheti, Dipesh ^a,b   Tripathee, Lekhendra ^c,d,e   Kang, Shichang ^c,f   Sharma, Chhatra Mani ^d,e,g   Paudyal, Rukumesh ^b,c,e   Sillanpää, Mika ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Himalayan Environment Research Institute (HERI)   (Nepal)

^f CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^g KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

health risk; Himalayas; lake water; potentially toxic elements; water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020702141     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2017.1292117     Document Type: Article

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