Review of Ghana's water resources: the quality and management with particular focus on freshwater resources

E Yeleliere, SJ Cobbina, AB Duwiejuah - Applied Water Science, 2018 - Springer
Freshwater resources are continually decreasing in quality and quantity. Approximately, 1%
of this freshwater is accessible in lakes, river channels and underground for domestic use …

A review of the water resources of Ghana in a changing climate and anthropogenic stresses

SK Agodzo, E Bessah, M Nyatuame - Frontiers in Water, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An extensive narrative review approach is adopted to present existing information on the
consumptive and non-consumptive uses and their related issues, such as floods and …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of land use and land cover changes on water quality in the Nawuni Catchment of the White Volta Basin, Northern Region, Ghana

AA Tahiru, DA Doke, BN Baatuuwie - Applied Water Science, 2020 - Springer
Pollution of freshwater resources is gaining global attention due to increasing freshwater
stress and scarcity. This study assessed land use and land cover changes (LULCC) in the …

A review of Ghana's water resource management and the future prospect

PA Owusu, S Asumadu-Sarkodie, P Ameyo - Cogent Engineering, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Water covers about 70% of the earth's surface and it exists naturally in the earth in all the
three physical states of matter and it is always moving around because the water flows with …

[HTML][HTML] Physico-chemical and bacteriological quality of water sources in rural settings, a case study of Kenya, Africa

ON Sila - Scientific African, 2019 - Elsevier
Water sources namely, rivers, dams, furrows, springs, wells, boreholes and rainwater were
analyzed for selected physicochemical properties that included: pH, total alkalinity …

Assessment of geospatial and hydrochemical interactions of groundwater quality, southwestern Nigeria

PGC Emenike, CC Nnaji, IT Tenebe - Environmental monitoring and …, 2018 - Springer
Groundwater pollution resulting from anthropogenic activities and poor effluent management
is on the rise in Nigeria. Hence, groundwater used for domestic purposes is questionable …

[PDF][PDF] Agricultural activities causing water pollution and its mitigation—A review

N Kumar, A Kumar, BM Marwein… - … Journal of Modern …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Agriculture is the base economic structure for many developed and develo** countries
with critical infrastructural share countries the capital grries. The present study is about …

A systematic review of heavy metals of anthropogenic origin in environmental media and biota in the context of gold mining in Ghana

FA Armah, R Quansah… - … scholarly research notices, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Heavy metal accumulation in the food chain is an issue of global concern because it
eventually leads to toxic effects on humans through the water we drink, contaminated soils …

A review on green technologies for the rejuvenation of polluted surface water bodies: Field-scale feasibility, challenges, and future perspectives

M Simon, H Joshi - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The global paucity of water resources and the degradation of water quality have
necessitated a need for the restoration of water bodies for the last two decades. Due to …

[PDF][PDF] A review of environmental effects of surface water pollution

PU Igwe, CC Chukwudi, FC Ifenatuorah… - International Journal of …, 2017 - academia.edu
Water is life without pollution, but death when it is polluted. The objective of this study is to
conduct a literature review of environmental effects of surface water pollution. The method …