Drinking water quality status and contamination in Pakistan

MK Daud, M Nafees, S Ali, M Rizwan… - BioMed research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Due to alarming increase in population and rapid industrialization, drinking water quality is
being deteriorated day by day in Pakistan. This review sums up the outcomes of various …

Development of lab-on-chip biosensor for the detection of toxic heavy metals: A review

V Karthik, B Karuna, PS Kumar, A Saravanan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, a decrease in water availability and quality has been raised due to rapid
industrialization, unsustainable agricultural activities and anthropogenic activities. Heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Groundwater quality and health risk assessment using indexing approaches, multivariate statistical analysis, artificial neural networks, and GIS techniques in …

M Gad, A Gaagai, MH Eid, P Szűcs, H Hussein… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The assessment and prediction of water quality are important aspects of water resource
management. Therefore, the groundwater (GW) quality of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of drinking water quality and its impact on residents health in Bahawalpur city

M Mohsin, S Safdar, F Asghar, F Jamal - International Journal of …, 2013 - academia.edu
Present study aimed to assess and compare the ground water quality with WHO standards
and its related diseases in Bahawalpur city. Three sample areas Satellite town, Shahdrah …

[HTML][HTML] Water quality assessment and monitoring in Pakistan: A comprehensive review

L Kumar, R Kumari, A Kumar, IA Tunio, C Sassanelli - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Water quality has been a major problem in Pakistan owing to a mix of factors such as
population expansion, industrial units in urban areas, and agricultural activities. The …

[PDF][PDF] Physicochemical investigation of the drinking water sources from Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

N Khan, ST Hussain, A Saboor, N Jamila… - International journal of …, 2013 - academia.edu
A total of 39 drinking water sources were analyzed for important physicochemical
parameters to evaluate their suitability for human consumption. Samples were collected from …

[PDF][PDF] An integrated approach for quality assessment of drinking water using GIS: A case study of Lower Dir.

S Ullah, MW Javed, M Shafique… - Journal of Himalayan Earth …, 2014 - academia.edu
The present study was carried out to assess the quality of drinking water quality in district
Lower Dir located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. A total of 33 water samples …

Groundwater quality evaluation of the alluvial aquifers using GIS and water quality indices in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

AK Tefera, AB Wassie, BG Sinshaw… - Groundwater for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Groundwater (GW), which contributes to the quality of life, economic development, improved
food security, and rural society stability, is essential to improving rural water supply access …

[HTML][HTML] Human health and ecology at risk: a case study of metal pollution in Lahore, Pakistan

HH Iqbal, A Siddique, A Qadir, SR Ahmad… - Environmental Sciences …, 2024 - Springer
Background With rapid industrial development, heavy metal contamination has become a
major public health and ecological concern worldwide. Although knowledge about metal …

Relationship between urbanisation and pollutant emissions in transboundary river basins under the strategy of the Belt and Road Initiative

S Yu, H Lu - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Urbanisation has increased the discharge of pollutants, altered water flow regimes, and
modified the morphology of transboundary river basins. All these actions have resulted in …