Zambia and the DR Congo are situated in the central African Copperbelt, which is part of the Lufilian geological structure arc stretching over from Kolwezi in Katanga Province in the DRC to Luanshya in Copperbelt Province in Zambia. The area has large copper-cobalt deposits of which the extracti...
This is particularly worrisome because the DRC has the most fresh-water resources of any country in Africa. Yet, due to poor infrastructure and conflict-related damage to facilities, hundreds of thousands of people in the DRC do not have safe running water in their homes. What’s the Impa...
12 This trend poses a considerable challenge to water resources worldwide. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to understand the so-called "Water-Energy-Food Nexus",13 in order to tackle the multifaceted challenges and trade-offs related to sustainable and equitable allocation of water...
safe drinking water supplies, urban water development and management strategies as well as issues related to urban and peri-urban drainage and sanitation, the rehabilitation of degraded water ecosystems, research on disappearing water resources, aspects of conflict prevention and resolution in relation to...
“This phenomenon will have a profound effect on the long-term sustainable socioeconomic development of the islands and is likely to jeopardize the achievement of theMillennium Development Goals(MDGs). All economic and social sectors will be adversely affected. The water resources sector on most isl...
As such our focus is on trends in cultivated area and production, the impacts on land and water resources and the industry’s links with regional economic development and rural livelihoods. By combining geospatial data on sugarcane croplands with water resources availability, we assess the rainfed ...
These factors put enormous pressure on water resources in terms of their availability, and can lead to some of the worst environmental disasters in mining regions [9,12]. This research considers the case of an open-pit coal mining project site in the Thar coalfield, located in the Thar ...
where 𝑓𝑠fs is the proportionality coefficient for the related stratum; 𝑛𝑠ns the size of the related stratum in the sample; and 𝑁𝑠Ns the total stratum size in the population. Once the coefficient 𝑓𝑠fs is known, the substratum sample size is computed according to Equation ...