Spatial groundwater quality and potential health risks due to nitrate ingestion through drinking water: A case study in Yan’an City on the Loess Plateau of northwest China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2019, Pages 11-31

  Li, Peiyue ^a   He, Xiaodong ^a   Guo, Wenyu ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

groundwater contamination; health risk; Loess Plateau; nitrate pollution; water quality distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060155107     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2018.1553612     Document Type: Article

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