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 & Environment, 28(3), 133-161.ANDERSON, B., ROMANI, J., PHILLIPS, H., WENTZEL, M. & TLABELA, K. Exploring environmental perceptions, behaviors and awareness: water ...
Surface water pollution is generally caused by pathogens, nutrients, plastics, chemicals such as heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics, industrial waste discharges, and individuals dumping into waterways. From: Algae and Aquatic Macrophytes in Cities, 2022 ...
1600 tonnes in India, and 300 tonnes inSouth Africa(Refkin and Cray, 2013).Water pollutionis so acute that up to 70% of China’s rivers and lakes are seriously polluted (Morton, 2006;WWF, 2012). It may well be noted that China has some of most polluted rivers in the world including...
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 Science & Technology A Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research》 被引量: 28发表: 2009年 CIVIC ACTION AND LEGAL MOBILISATION: THE PHIRI WATER METERS CASE In South Africa everyone will say that life is not fair for the poor. Even the rich will say .....
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...
Climate change,pollution,overuse of water and development are killing some of the world’s most famous rivers including China’s Yangtze.India’s Ganges and Africa’s Nile.WWF said on Tuesday.At the global launch of its report “World’s Top 10 Rivers at Risk”,the group said many rivers ...
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 ...
Groundwater chemistry integrating the pollution index of groundwater and evaluation of potential human health risk: A case study from hard rock terrain of south India 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety Show abstract Groundwater quality monitoring for assessment of pollution levels and potability...