Journal of Pollution Effects & Control
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Joachim Ibeziako Ezeji

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• Research Article
  Reducing Risks of Contamination Breaching the Drinking Water System through Catchment Sensitive Farming in Eastern Nigeria
  Author(s): Joachim Ibeziako EzejiJoachim Ibeziako Ezeji
  
  In Nigeria, over a score of urban water agencies depend on rivers and other surface water bodies for their raw water intakes. But many of these rivers are currently under unregulated threat from inadequate catchment management. The persistent failure to regulate and take advantage of the work that healthy watersheds perform naturally is currently overwhelming the ability of public water agencies to mitigate catchment sourced contaminants at a fraction of the cost of conventional treatment and guaranty safe drinking water to water consumers. This paper reviews a case study drawn from the Anambra-Imo River basin (one of the twelve River Basins in Nigeria) where intensive agriculture and poor land management activities, especially on catchments of key rivers serving water utilities, has increased pollution threats by non-point pollution; both organic and chemical. Human induced catchment.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2375-4397.1000148

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