Groundwater quality and associated health risks in a semi-arid region of south India: Implication to sustainable groundwater management

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2019, Pages 191-216

  Adimalla, Narsimha ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

drinking water; groundwater management; Groundwater pollution; health risk assessment; irrigation water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85059734255     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2018.1546550     Document Type: Article

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