Fluoride occurrence in groundwater systems at global scale and status of defluoridation – State of the art

Groundwater for Sustainable Development - Tập 9 - Trang 100223 - 2019
Vivian Kimambo1,2,3, Prosun Bhattacharya3,4, Felix Mtalo1, Joseph O. Mtamba1, Ahmad Arslan3,5
1DAFWAT Research Group, Department of Water Resources Engineering, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2Department of Chemistry, University of Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania
3KTH-Groundwater Arsenic Research Group, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
4School of Civil Engineering & Surveying & International Centre for Applied Climate Science, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 4350, QLD, Australia
5KWR Water Cycle Research Institute, Groningenhaven 7, 3433 PE Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

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