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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
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 ...
activities that may cause groundwater pollution. To ensure compliance with regulations, enforcement mechanisms must be implemented by government. We, therefore, assessed South Africa’s policies and institutional capacity to enforce regulations on UOG extraction and fracking. We compared our 2019 capacity...
Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Environmental Impact, Cleanup, Recovery: Thousands of birds, mammals, and sea turtles were covered with leaked oil; animals found alive were taken to rehabilitation centers. Larvae of fish likely developed heart defects afte
Lastly, we consider water security as an essential facet of sustainable development and use it as the independent variable (see x-axis in Fig.1). Economic inequality and environmental pollution are assumed to be growth-dependent in the KC/EKC literature. However, economic development may not be...
Zhang [214] indicates the great interest in remediating pollution in groundwater ecosystems, finding 5486 papers with significant growth in the last 15 years. The present study proves that, since 2003, several scientists have valued the importance of implementing sustainable methods for water ...
The results of a study conducted along Fez and Sebou rivers in the region of Fez in Morocco indicate that severe pollution occurred in most urbanized and industrial areas [6]. Water is the most important resource for both economic and social development for modern societies. In South Africa, ...
has also emphasized protecting groundwater from pathogen contamination. Pathogen-contaminated groundwater can cause pollution in coastal environments. For example, a study of Buttermilk Bay has shown that groundwater is capable of transporting a large quantity of pathogens from surface to sub-surface ...