Groundwater quality appraisal by improved set pair analysis with game theory weightage and health risk estimation of contaminants for Xuecha drinking water source in a loess area in Northwest China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2019, Pages 132-157

  Tian, Rui ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

drinking water quality; groundwater contamination; human health risk; Loess Plateau; set pair analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061007376     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2019.1573035     Document Type: Article

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