Over 1.1 billion people in the world lack access to improved drinking water. Diarrhoeal and other waterborne diseases cause an estimated 1.9 million deaths per year. The Safe Water System (SWS) is a proven household water treatment intervention that reduces diarrhoeal disease incidence among users in developing countries. Turbid waters pose a particular challenge to implementation of SWS progra...

Five methods for extracting nematodes from soil were compared using three sandy soils and three clay soils. Although no one method was superior to the others for all the genera in any one particular soil, the decanting plus sieving plus Baermann tray method was generally the most efficient for sandy soils and the decanting plus sieving plus centrifugal sugar flotation method the most efficient ...

Anaerobic digestion provides renewable energy through waste valorisation, but the digestate by-product is underutilised and presents a risk to water quality. Mechanical separation partitions phosphorous into solid fraction further processing fuel pellet can provide an additional source of revenue. Previous economic analyses looked only at aspects system (e.g. operational costs solely) requires ...

The use of aluminum sulphate in clarifying raw waters raises many concerns about its impact on human health. Thus, the present study was initiated to compare effects Moringa oleifera and besides evaluating association between M. or with Opuntia ficus-indica syntofloc for water treatment. essays were carried Jar Test using 352.80 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU). monitoring different physico-...