Toxic fluoride and arsenic contaminated groundwater in the Lahore and Kasur districts, Punjab, Pakistan and possible contaminant sources

Environmental Pollution - Tập 145 Số 3 - Trang 839-849 - 2007
Abida Farooqi1, Harue Masuda1, Nousheen Firdous2
1Department of Geosciences, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
2Geosciences Laboratory, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Chak Shehzad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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