Heavy Metals Contamination and Distribution in Drinking Water from Urban Area of Mashhad City in Northeast Iran: Implications for Water Quality Assessment

Subject Areas : Journal of Chemical Health Risks

Batoul Zarif Gharaati Oftadeh ¹ , Belin Tavakoly Sany ² , Hossein Alidadi ³ , Mohammad Zangouei ⁴ , Reza Barati ⁵ , Atefeh Naseri ⁶ , Mohammad Tafaghodi ⁷

1 - Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Department of health education and promotion, Faculty of health, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran
3 - Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran |Department of Environmental health engineering, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran
4 - Ph.D student of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
5 - Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
6 - MSc of Natural Resources and Environment of Department, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran
7 - Chemistry department, Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran: Khorasan Razavi Regional Water Authority, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2021-05-19 Accepted : 2021-07-20 Published : 2021-12-01

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