Groundwater Quality Issues and Challenges for Drinking and Irrigation Uses in Central Ganga Basin Dominated with Rice-Wheat Cropping System
Increased population and increasing demands for food in the Indo-Gangetic plain are likely to exert pressure on fresh water due to rise in demand for drinking and irrigation water. The study focuses on Bhojpur district, Bihar located in the central Ganga basin, to assess the groundwater quality for...
Main Authors: | Sumant Kumar, Manish Kumar, Veerendra Kumar Chandola, Vinod Kumar, Ravi K. Saini, Neeraj Pant, Nikul Kumari, Ankur Srivastava, Surjeet Singh, Rajesh Singh, Gopal Krishan, Shashi Poonam Induwar, Sudhir Kumar, Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Nityanand Singh Maurya, Anju Chaudhary |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-08-01
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Series: | Water |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/17/2344 |
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