Groundwater quality assessment for domestic and agricultural purposes in Yan’an City, northwest China: implications to sustainable groundwater quality management on the Loess Plateau

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 77, Issue 23, 2018, Pages

  Li, Peiyue ^a   He, Song ^a   Yang, Ningning ^a   Xiang, Gang ^b  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guizhou Bureau of Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Hydrochemistry; Loess Plateau; Nitrate pollution; TOPSIS; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ENTROPY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IRRIGATION; LANDFORMS; POTABLE WATER; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT; LOESS PLATEAU; NITRATE POLLUTION; SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; TOPSIS; WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; NITRATE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI; YANAN;

EID: 85057293636     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-018-7968-3     Document Type: Article

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