"When I was young, the roads in the village were very bumpy. I can't even count how many times I fell off my bike and landed in a ditch. Now the village roads are smooth, the trees by the houses have grown tall, and the river water has become clearer. In September 2023, Liu jo...
We next examined if the presence of groundwater wells—a well known difference between urban and rural areas—correlated with indoor air radon differences between communities. Participants reported whether their household water supply was from either municipal water, a groundwater well, or mixed supplie...
The physical proximity of people, as well as infrastructure provisioning in urban areas (such as water and sanitation), have historically shaped endemics, epidemics, and pandemics2. Increased physical interactions between people due to higher mobility within and across urban areas nationally and ...
These studies have also shown that structures like check-dams, weirs and embankments built «along steep and precipitous watercourses» had two related functions: on the one hand «that of regulating the water, holding back the current and the down-wash of materials, on the other hand wher...
Service Delivery Indicators and Monitoring to Improve Sustainability of Rural Water Supplies. The Hague: IRC.Lockwood H, Gouais A (2011) Service delivery indicators and monitoring to improve sustainability of rural water supplies. Building blocks for sustainability. http://www.rural-water-...
Decision Support System for Rural Water Supply in the Nilgiris District of South India A considerable amount of knowledge exists for planning, designing, and implementing rural water supply schemes in developing countries around the world. Ge... D Olsen,SE Dickson,B Baetz 被引量: 13发表: 2006年...
The development objectives of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project (RWSSIP) for Nepal are to: (i) increase access to improved water and sanitation services in project areas; and (ii) develop and implement a pilot lon... TW Bank 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 Role of participat...
Enyigba in south-eastern Nigeria is one of the agrarian communities facing water scarcity challenges. The open cast mining activities in the region are als
cultivation, leading to intensive farming and increased use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, according to the study led by Ngoan. The overuse of pesticides and fertilizers has a negative impact on the surrounding water and soil, as crops can only absorb about 40-50 percent of the ...
Water reservoirs greatly diversify the landscape and create an opportunity to observe both common and unique species of animals. In rural and urban–rural communes in the Mazovia Voivodeship, land covered with water accounts for only 1.1% of the total area. Therefore, we assumed that a share of...