Groundwater is increasingly being used to help meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2 and 6 in many parts of world, including Ghana. Against this background, hydrogeochemical multivariate statistical studies were conducted determine physicochemical characteristics suitability groundwater some agrarian communities Upper East Region Ghana for drinking irrigational farming. Additional ana...

Salt accumulation in soils poses severe challenges for crop production arid and semi-arid regions. Scarcity of rainfall a high evaporation rate these regions are considered major reasons salt accumulation. It drastically reduces the leaching excessive salts below root zone crops. The toxic effects on plants can be greatly reduced with use biological inorganic amendments. present study was condu...

Reactive Red 120 was utilized as an affinity dye-ligand to modify the surface of magnetic chitosan microspheres to improve the adsorption capacity for lysozyme. The impact of pH, ionic strength, adsorption time and initial lysozyme concentration on the adsorption of lysozyme from aqueous solutions was investigated. An increased adsorption amount of 116.9 mg/g lysozyme on Reactive Red 120 modifi...

Freshwater resources are used for many purposes such as drinking, tap water, industrial usage and agricultural irrigation. Although unpolluted surface waters groundwater preferred the irrigation of landscape plants in parks gardens, snowmelt water is generally ignored. Like other precipitation types, snow can absorb solid liquid substances atmosphere it rain on earth with its natural chemical s...

Shallow groundwater is often exposed to multiple sources of pollution that can make it unsuitable for certain uses. Complete hydrogeochemical studies are necessary the better management these resources. Well water samples were collected on extent Karfiguéla paddy field physico-chemical parameters, such as pH, EC, TDS, Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, NH4+, NO3−, NO2−, SO42−, CO32−, Cl−, and HCO3−, metallic...

Surface molecularly imprinted polymers (SMIPs) for selective adsorption of ampicillin sodium were synthesized using surface molecular imprinting technique with silica gel as a support. The physical and morphological characteristics of the polymers were investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), elemental...

The purpose of this research is the zoning of groundwater quality for agriculture usages in the Eyvanakey plain, conjugating Interpolation methods by Geographic Information System (GIS) and selection of the best weights in Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Achieving this aim, groundwater quality data from 19 wells in Eyvanakey plain were used. First, raster maps of the study area was prepared...

In order to accurately model soil reclamation with concentrated electrolytes such as CaCl2 or sea water, it must be determined if there is an effect of salinity on the Na-Ca exchange selectivity. A new procedure for determining Na-Ca selectivity in calcareous and gypsiferous soils was used to study the effects of ionic strength and mineralogy on Na-Ca exchange. Four specimen clay minerals and t...

An experiment was conducted to assess the yield potential and Water Use Efficiency (WUE) of Canola crop grown under sprinkler basin irrigation techniques on a clay loam soil. The designed by Principles Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with two treatments, viz. T1 (sprinkler method) T2 (basin method), replicated four times. Marginal quality water Electrical Conductivity (ECw) 1.83 dS/m pH...

The adverse effects of exchangeable sodium on soil hydraulic conductivity (K) are well known, but at present only sodicity and total electrolyte concentration are used in evaluating irrigation water suitability. In arid areas, high sodicity is often associated with high dissolved carbonate and thus high pH, but in humid areas high sodicity may be associated with low pH. To evaluate the effect o...