Assam's Digaru River under threat: Integrated water quality and human health risk assessment of an industry-laden system through the lens of multivariate statistics and water quality indexing
River contamination in India has become a critical issue owing to gross mismanagement of resources, poor planning, and limited understanding of contaminant dynamics. In this context, we conducted a systematic yet comprehensive study of the Digaru River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, which has been subjected to...