Evaluation of water quality index for River Sabarmati, Gujarat, India

Applied Water Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1349-1358

  Shah, Kosha A ^a   Joshi, Geeta S ^a  

^a M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

Rating scale; Water quality index; Water quality parameters; Weighted arithmetic mean method

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; URBAN GROWTH; WATERSHEDS;

ARITHMETIC MEAN METHOD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GUJARAT; RATING SCALE; RIVER BASINS; TOTAL COLIFORMS; URBAN AREAS; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WEIGHTED ARITHMETIC MEAN METHOD;

WATER QUALITY;

HUMAN ACTIVITY; RIVER BASIN; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY;

GUJARAT; INDIA; SABARMATI RIVER;

EID: 85114066082     PISSN: 21905487     EISSN: 21905495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13201-015-0318-7     Document Type: Article

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