The present work was to evaluate the quality of ponds and earth dam water of Gella town in Mubi South Local Government Area of Adamawa State in order to examine its suitability for drinking and domestic purposes. Four ponds and an earth dam water samples were collected each durin...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/34921
Flowing surface water bodies have natural capacities to purify themselves from pollutions that come into them from external sources. The impact of the effluents of a brewing industry located in Kaduna on Rafin Giya stream and its self-purification potential were investigated. The...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/35837
This study aims to predict the potential mosquito larval habitats and monitoring the environmental factors associated with mosquito habitats to assess the spatiotemporal distribution in Suez Canal Zone, during the period of November 2014 - April 2016 by integrating remote sensing...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/35054
Aims: Unrefined industrial sewerage and unplanned water use changes groundwater quality and pollutes environment which is vulnerable to Langat basin of Malaysia. This research has aimed to find the water pollution trend due to urbanization by analyzing the hydrogeological conditi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/36049
Gill nets fishery are potentially selective and therefore use as a sampling gear if mesh sizes are rightly chosen in order to conserve the young and developing fishes. Precautionary approach towards Conserving and sustaining renewable aquatic resources is the best for exploitatio...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/34885
Understanding the nature and composition of vegetation resources in Nigeria is very valuable. Biophysical properties of lower river Kaduna catchment area was estimated. ModisTerra imageries from 2000-2014 were used to extract NDVI and Kc. Mann- Kendall and Sen’s Slope analysis we...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/32960
Fourteen top soil samples were collected from old Awka-Enugu road passing through Obioma, Nsude, Ngwo and Abor communities. Samples were taken from a depth of 10-15cm after making a hole with a pick axe. Total concentrations of cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), z...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/34865
This research set out to ascertain the land use and land cover changes that have taken place in Orlu L.G.A from 1986 to 2013. Two fundamental tools applied were GIS and remote sensing which were used for the assessment of LULC. Remote sensing provided multi temporal images, while...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/34144
Climatic change may occur due to high greenhouse gas emissions arising from dependence on solid fuel which triggers frequent environmental disasters such as extreme heat, droughts, floods, cyclones in many developing countries. Agriculture is sensitive to climate change in develo...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/35485
In order to correlate sanitation around water source with the quality of water from the source this study was conducted a cross-sectional study on 15 boreholes in 5 political wards using quantitative method of data collection. The Field survey was carried out in selected wards of...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEE/2017/35534