Arsenic contamination in the deep tube wells of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
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Characterization of microbial communities distributed in the groundwater pumped from deep tube wells in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
Although groundwater is a major water supply source in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, it is known that the groundwater has significant microbial contamination exceeding the drinking water quality standard recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), and that this has been implicated in causing a variety of diseases among people living in the valley. However, little is known about the dis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nepal Journal of Environmental Science
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2542-2901,2350-8647
DOI: 10.3126/njes.v1i1.36549