Assessment of groundwater quality of Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, India, with reference to arsenic contamination using multivariate statistical analysis

Applied Water Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Singh, Asha Lata ^a   Singh, Vipin Kumar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Groundwater; Oxidation reduction potential; Piper diagram

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER QUALITY;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENIC CONTAMINATION; CHROMIUM CONCENTRATION; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; MANGANESE CONCENTRATION; MONSOON SEASON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION POTENTIALS; PIPER DIAGRAM; PRE-MONSOON;

GROUNDWATER;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REDOX POTENTIAL; WATER QUALITY;

BALLIA; INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

BALLIA;

EID: 85052614482     PISSN: 21905487     EISSN: 21905495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13201-018-0737-3     Document Type: Article

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