Evaluation of groundwater contamination for fluoride and nitrate in semi-arid region of Nirmal Province, South India: A special emphasis on human health risk assessment (HHRA)

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 1107-1124

  Adimalla, Narsimha ^a   Li, Peiyue ^a   Qian, Hui ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fluoride; groundwater quality; human health risk; nitrate contamination; South India

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046097843     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2018.1460579     Document Type: Article

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