irrigation. The idea was to build 100 m of catchment area, and two concrete water storage tanks and irrigate one mu (1/15 hectare) of courtyard land devoted to cash crop production. In practice, the 1-2-1 program focused on building water tanks for household use, with roofs and courtyards serving as the principal catchment surfaces that channel water into the tank. County and township governmen...

During the 1960s, small quantities of radioactive materials were codisposed with chemical waste at the Little Forest Legacy Site (Sydney, Australia) in 3-meter-deep, unlined trenches. Chemical and microbial analyses, including functional and taxonomic information derived from shotgun metagenomics, were collected across a 6-week period immediately after a prolonged rainfall event to assess the i...

Rainwater and snow collected from three different sites in France (Vosges Mountains, French Alps and Strasbourg) show more or less similar shapes of their REE distribution patterns. Rainwater from Strasbourg is the most REE enriched sample, whereas precipitations from the two mountainous, less polluted catchments are less REE enriched and have concentrations close to seawater. They are all stro...

INTRODUCTION Because of the controversy over air pollution that has erupted in newspapers and magazines during the past several years, most people are aware of the potential hazards associated with air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, etc. However, there is another, relatively unknown, type of air pollution which is just as serious, if not more serious, than anything o...

This study assessed the antibiotics susceptibility of Bacillus cereus, B. thuringiensis and subtilis strains isolated in wells rainwater samples Yaounde (Cameroon). Water were collected monthly during a long dry season (LDS), short (SDS), rainy (LRS) (SRS), LRS SRS for rainwater. The considered included Imipenem, Amikacin, Gentamycin, Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin, Sulfamethazol, Tetracycline. With ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate the quality of on-plot piped water and rainwater at the point of consumption in an area with rapidly expanding coverage of 'improved' water sources. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 914 peri-urban households in Kandal Province, Cambodia, between July-August 2011. We collected data from all households on water management, drinking water...