Geofluids
Volume 2018, Article ID 9736260, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9736260
Submerged Groundwater Discharges as Source of Fecal Material in Protected Karstic Coastal Areas
1Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzado del IPN-Mérida, Km 6, Antigua Carretera a Progreso, Cordemex, Mérida, YUC, Mexico
2Unidad de Química en Sisal, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Puerto de Abrigo, S/N, 97356 Sisal, YUC, Mexico
3Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea
Correspondence should be addressed to Flor Arcega-Cabrera; xm.manu@agecraf
Received 29 September 2017; Revised 28 December 2017; Accepted 4 February 2018; Published 5 March 2018
Academic Editor: Maurizio Polemio
Copyright © 2018 Cristian Kantun Manzano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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