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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, P. O. Box 6677, Buraidah, 51452, Saudi Arabia

    Md. Shafiquzzaman, Husnain Haider, Saleem Saleh Al-Saleem & Abdul Razzaq Ghumman

  2. Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001, Australia

    Muhammed Ali Bhuiyan

  3. Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

    Abdelkader Tawfeek Ahmed

  4. Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdelkader Tawfeek Ahmed

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Shafiquzzaman, M., Haider, H., Bhuiyan, M.A. et al. Reply: response to letter to the editor. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 4889–4890 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11594-2

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