Refuse dumpsites are found scattered within and outside cities in Nigeria and the open burning of these dumps is a common practice mainly as a waste and odour reduction measure. Open incineration of wastes emits dangerous gases into the atmosphere. The environmental and public he...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v12i317083
Water quality assessment is an important part of environmental quality management especially in groundwater resources located close to sources of contamination. This study involved the assessment of groundwater quality for hand dug wells at locations with proximity to pit latrine...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2020/v10i417044
The delineation of watersheds can be carried out manually using topographic maps but these maps are mostly outdated, scarce and incomplete for most parts of Nigeria and may be of different scales for large watersheds that require several sheets of the map. Watershed boundaries ne...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/35972
This study focuses on evaluating the results from three geostatistical interpolation methods used for the estimation of average daily rainfall in ILWIS 3.7. Rainfall data from nine (9) gauging points over the Upper Dep River Basin, North Central Nigeria were used.The total catchm...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/34002
In order to assess the sanitation and water supply coverage in a rural community of Kogi State, Nigeria as a knowledge base for the actualization of the Sustainable Development Goals 6.1 and 6.2, a cross-sectional study was carried out amongst 325 household heads in Oforachi comm...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2018/41602