Residents in the South African town of Carolina are taking the local government to court after their water supply was polluted by run-off from nearby coal mines. Despite measures to improve water quality, many people say it is still unsafe and accuse the authorities of not doing enough.Al ...
(2007) 'Exploring environmental perceptions, behaviors and awareness: Water and water pollution in South Africa', Population and Environment, 28(3), pp. 133-161.Anderson B.; Romani J.; Phillips H.; Wentzel M.; Tlabela K. 2007.Exploring environmental perceptions, behaviors and awareness: ...
Groundwater vulnerability to pollution in Africa’s Sahel region Joel Podgorski Oliver Kracht Michael Berg Nature Sustainability(2024) Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally Scott Jasechko Hansjörg Seybold James W. Kirchner ...
Water scarcity occurs when there are insufficient freshwater resources to meet the human and environmental demands of a certain area. Given the challenges of population growth, profligate use, growing pollution, and global warming, many countries and maj
Spatial and temporal variations of groundwater arsenic in South and Southeast Asia. Science 328, 1123–1127 (2010). Article Google Scholar Winkel, L. H. et al. Arsenic pollution of groundwater in Vietnam exacerbated by deep aquifer exploitation for more than a century. Proc. Natl Acad. ...
(MPCU), to provide a command and control structure for decisionmaking and response following a shipping incident that causes, or threatens to cause, pollution in U.K. waters. The spill also subsequently led to a comprehensive National Contingency Plan (NCP) in the United Kingdom and ...
In this study, groundwater from rural and peri-urban South Africa was assessed in terms of drinking water quality. Indicators of faecal pollution were identified across the examined boreholes, with E. coli and nitrates concentrations as high as 195 cfu 100 mL−1 and 104 mg ...
Winde F (2006 b): Challenges for sustainable water use in dolomitic mining regions of South Africa - a case study of uranium pollution, Part II: Spatial patterns, mechanisms and dynamics. Physical Geography, ISSN 0272-3646, 27, 2, 379-395...
Water poverty in Nepal is an emerging issue for the local government and the country is facing challenges related to water pollution, poverty and scarcity through the country hold 2.27% of world water resource (HEMS, 2015). Water resource is the most important natural resource of Nepal. The ma...
However, in an attempt to reestablish the quality of drinking water in this province, the current paper targets to examine the drinking water quality of the groundwater using different techniques such as pollution index of groundwater (PIG), ecological risk index (ERI), and hierarchical cluster ...