Spatiotemporal variation of groundwater quality in an arid area experiencing long-term paper wastewater irrigation, northwest China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 2017, Pages

  Wu, Jianhua ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Wang, Siting ^a   Tian, Rui ^a   Xue, Chenyang ^a   Feng, Wei ^a   Li, Yinghao ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Groundwater quality evaluation; Hydrochemical characteristics; Temporal variation; Wastewater irrigation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IRRIGATION; MINERALS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS; GROUNDWATER QUALITY EVALUATIONS; HYDROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WASTEWATER IRRIGATION; WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ION EXCHANGE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; GROUND WATER; IRRIGATION; WASTE WATERS; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 85021712480     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-6787-2     Document Type: Article

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