Adapted water quality indices: Limitations and potential for water quality monitoring in Africa

DK Lukhabi, PK Mensah, NK Asare… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
A Water Quality Index (WQI) is a tool that describes the overall water quality by combining
complex and technical water quality information into a single meaningful unitless numerical …

Hydrogeochemical evaluation for human health risk assessment from contamination of coastal groundwater aquifers of Indo-Bangladesh Ramsar site

D Ruidas, SC Pal, I Chowdhuri, A Saha… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The suitability of groundwater (GW) and the corresponding health risk caused by heavy
metals become prime concerns in the recent era; so, the determination of GW quality most …

Water quality indices and multivariate statistical analysis of urban groundwater in semi-arid Sokoto Basin, Northwestern Nigeria

SU Wali, NB Alias, SB Harun, KJ Umar… - Groundwater for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drinking water is limited in quantity and quality in fast-growing cities in developing countries.
Water quality has been impacted by competing demands by industry, municipal supplies …

Investigating the hydrogeochemistry, corrosivity and scaling tendencies of groundwater in an agrarian area (Nigeria) using graphical, indexical and statistical …

ME Omeka, JC Egbueri, CO Unigwe - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
Assessment and monitoring of the quality of groundwater are important in areas where
anthropogenic activities, such as agriculture, thrive. In the present paper, multiple graphical …

Contamination zoning and health risk assessment of trace elements in groundwater through geostatistical modelling

M Hossain, PK Patra - Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Trace elements (TEs) concentration in groundwater is a key factor for health risk assessment
(HRA). To achieve high level of accuracy in HRA, the present study performed Monte Carlo …

Appraising drinking water quality in Ikem rural area (Nigeria) based on chemometrics and multiple indexical methods

JC Egbueri, CK Ezugwu, PD Ameh, CO Unigwe… - Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
The continuous deterioration of drinking water quality supplies by several anthropogenic
activities is a serious global challenge in recent times. In this current study, the drinking …

Source apportionment, chemometric pattern recognition and health risk assessment of groundwater from southwestern Punjab, India

R Kumar, S Mittal, PK Sahoo, SK Sahoo - Environmental geochemistry and …, 2021 - Springer
The groundwater quality of southwestern Punjab, India, is a serious cause of concern due to
the presence of chemical contaminants in it. However, limited studies of groundwater quality …

Ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in vegetables irrigated with groundwater and wastewater: the particular case of Sahiwal district in Pakistan

K ur Rehman, SM Bukhari, S Andleeb… - Agricultural water …, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of wastewater for irrigation is a common practice in the developing world. It is a
major route of heavy metal contamination in vegetables. The groundwater, an alternative …

A comprehensive evaluation of surface water quality and potential health risk assessments of Sisa river, Kumasi

O Akoto, A Adopler, HE Tepkor, F Opoku - Groundwater for sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface water quality deterioration is one of the primary issues of the twenty-first century due
to the high demand for drinking and irrigation purposes in most communities. The purpose of …

Arsenic and fluoride exposure in drinking water caused human health risk in coastal groundwater aquifers

T Biswas, SC Pal, A Saha, D Ruidas - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater (GW) is a precious resource for human beings as we depend on it as a source
of fresh drinking water, agricultural practices, industrial and domestic uses, etc. Extreme …