Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of Groundwater Quality for Drinking and Irrigation Purposes and Integrated Interpretation with Water Quality Index Studies

Environmental Processes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 363-383

  Adimalla, Narsimha ^a   Li, Peiyue ^a   Venkatayogi, Sudarshan ^b  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Drinking and irrigation; Groundwater quality; Rock dominant semi arid region; Telangana; Water quality index (WQI)

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRRIGATION; NITRATES; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTABLE WATER; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOLVENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER QUALITY;

DRINKING AND IRRIGATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; ROCK WATER INTERACTION; SEMI-ARID REGION; TELANGANA; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; WATER QUALITY INDEXES;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; INDEX METHOD; ION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; POPULATION GROWTH; SEMIARID REGION; WATER QUALITY;

INDIA; TELANGANA;

EID: 85047634844     PISSN: 21987491     EISSN: 21987505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40710-018-0297-4     Document Type: Article

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