Estimating Combined Loads of Diffuse and Point-Source Pollutants Into the Borkena River, Ethiopia

ISBN-13: 9780367253455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str.

Eskinder Zinabu Belachew

Opis

The book offers insights into impacts of the heavy metals and nutrients loads on ecological health of rivers in Kombolcha city. It contributes to the theory of river protection and understanding of water quality management of sub-Saharan African tropical rivers and sediments where policy options are often poor.

Spis treści

1 General introduction
2 Impacts and Policy Implications of Metals Effluent Discharges into Rivers within Industrial Zone: A sub-Saharan Perspective from Ethiopia
3 Preventing sustainable development: policy and capacity gaps for monitoring metals in riverine water and sediments within an industrialising catchment in Ethiopia
4 Evaluating the effect of diffuse and point source nutrient transfers on water quality in the Kombolcha River Basin, an industrializing Ethiopian catchment
5 Estimating Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus Losses in a Data-Poor Ethiopian Catchment
6 Synthesis and conclusions