Dr. Chhatra Sharma of the Department of Environmental Science and
Engineering with his colleagues from Chinese Academy of Sciences and
Lappeenranta UniAssessment of water quality and health risks for toxic trace elements in urban Phewa and remote Gosainkunda Lakes, Nepal
Himalayan
Lakes which are under threat of elemental pollutants from atmospheric
long range transport and rapid urbanization in the South Asian regions.
The focus of the article is on health risk assessment of potentially
toxic trace elements and mercury on the two Himalayan lakes, Gosainkunda
and Phewa.