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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2017

Characterizing groundwater quality ranks for drinking purposes in Sylhet district, Bangladesh, using entropy method, spatial autocorrelation index, and geostatistics.

Abu Reza Md Towfiqul Islam, Nasir Ahmed, Md Bodrud-Doza, Ronghao Chu

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Abu Reza Md Towfiqul IslamDepartment of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, 5400, Bangladesh. gm_towfique_06@yahoo.com.
Nasir AhmedIsotope Hydrology Division, Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Savar, Dhaka 1349, Bangladesh.
Md Bodrud-DozaDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, 1342, Bangladesh.
Ronghao ChuCollege of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.

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IAEA Technical Cooperation (TC) Project under RAS/8/108 and RAS/7/022
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Drinking water is susceptible to the poor quality of contaminated water affecting the health of humans. Thus, it is an essential study to investigate factors affecting groundwater quality and its suitability for drinking uses. In this paper, the entropy theory, multivariate statistics, spatial autocorrelation index, and geostatistics are applied to characterize groundwater quality and its spatial variability in the Sylhet district of Bangladesh. A total of 91samples have been collected from wells (e.g., shallow, intermediate, and deep tube wells at 15-300-m depth) from the study area. The results show that NO

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Environmental MonitoringWater QualityBangladeshDrinking WaterEntropyGroundwaterHumansSpatial AnalysisWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater WellsDrinking WaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalEntropy theoryGeostatisticsGroundwater contaminationSemivariogram modelSpatial autocorrelation indexWater quality index

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