Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms) is an invasive aquatic macrophyte associated with major negative economic and ecological impacts. Although water hyacinth continues to cause serious disruptions in the use of water bodies in Kenya, the government has not promptly moved to contain ...
NAIROBI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Kenya plans to begin monitoring surface and ground water bodies in order to mitigate impact from the ongoing drought, officials said Monday. Joe Mutambu, chairman of Water Resources Authority told journalists in Nairobi that more than half of the country is experien...
In Kenya, large amounts of copper and nitrate are found in fresh water (Wayua, 2017). Water rich in sulphates can be found in the semi-arid rangelands of the western region USA, Minnesota’s groundwater, river waters in western Canada, and in SW China (Kun et al., 2017; Cammack ...
NAIROBI, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Kenya must adopt innovative practices to promote sustainable management of inland fresh water, conservationists said on Wednesday, the final day of a three-day blue economy conference in Nairobi. Lillian Nyaega, program officer at Wetlands International, said that heal...
water security for urban towns in Kenya through sustainable use of groundwater in the context of (1) complex hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry, and (2) water access disparities which relates the source to the users who are an important consideration in sustainable groundwater supply and management....
The objective of our study was to provide additional insights into rotifer community composition in a diverse variety of waterbodies in Kenya by investigating how selected geographic and habitat characteristics are correlated with rotifer species richness. We accomplished this by conducting an extensive ...
Waangari Maathai is a mother and a teacher, who started an environmental movement in Kenya that won her the Nobel Prize. Seeing the destruction of tree cover and springs in her community, she started an organization to plant trees and look after women’s rights. This became the Green-Belt ...
(2012) assessed the water footprint of the cut flower industry within the Lake Naivasha basin in Kenya, revealing that the environmental impacts on the lake are largely brought about by the surrounding commercial farms and smallholder farms related to the industry. Noya et al. (2016) undertook ...
Therefore this study sought to evaluate the effects of appraisal system on employees' performance in Water service Board in Kenya. The results revealed that all the variable had a statistically significant influence on employees' performance at AWSB. Based on the ...
The major water bodies occurring on the Dungeness shinglecomprise the two Open Pits, which are natural in origin, and anumber of artificial gravel pits, va