Determination of Arsenic and Health Risk Assessment in the Ground Water of Sindh, Pakistan
Keywords: Arsenic, Groundwater, River Indus, Sindh, Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Health Risk
Assessment
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology
Volume 36 , Issue 4
ZULFIQAR ALI BHATTI , KHADIJA QURESHI , INAMULLAH BHATTI , IMRAN NAZIR UNAR , MOHAMMAD YAR KHUHAWAR ,
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