More about making profits or providing safe drinking water? A state-of-the-art review on sachet water contamination in Nigeria

JC Agbasi, AL Ezugwu, ME Omeka… - … Science and Health …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Public health concerns on surface and groundwater contamination worldwide have
increased. Sachet water contamination has also raised serious concerns across many …

From curiosity to commodity: a review of the evolution of sachet drinking water in West Africa

J Stoler - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The private sector continues to play an important role in filling local drinking water supply
gaps across the Global South. In West Africa, a perfect storm of rapid population growth …

Natural radioactivity and mineral assessment in red and black colored soils collected from agricultural area of Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, India

V Sathish, A Chandrasekaran, A Tamilarasi… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2022 - Springer
Activity concentration of 238U, 232Th, 40K and its corresponding radiological parameters in
red and black soil samples collected from different agricultural locations of Tiruvannamalai …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of natural radioactivity and radiological hazard evaluation in the soil samples collected from Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

K Aladeniyi, C Olowookere, BB Oladele - Journal of radiation research and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The activity concentrations of 40 K, 226 Ra, and 232 Th in the soil samples collected from
Owo Local Government of Ondo state, Nigeria, were assessed by gamma spectrometric …

Assessment of soil radioactivity levels and radiation hazards in Guangyao Village, South China

Z Wang, Y Ye - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2021 - Springer
Soil samples were collected at 30 sampling points distributed evenly in Guangyao Village,
South China to determine the radioactivity level around a monazite tailings pond via gamma …

Evaluation of radiological health risks in popularly consumed brands of sachet water in Nigeria

K Aladeniyi, CJ Olowookere, MU Khandaker… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Radiological investigation of 35 brands of most popularly used sachet drinking water in
Ondo state, Nigeria has been carried out using a spectrometric method for evaluating the …

Transfer factors for natural radioactivity into olive mill pomace

AF Kraishan, MA Shayeb, H Belmabrouk… - Applied Radiation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The transfer factor (TF) of naturally occurring radioactivity between soil and olive mill
pomace (OMP) was calculated in this study. Nine samples were collected from three …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of natural radioactivity in soil and olive mill pomace utilizing nal (TI) gamma-ray spectrometry and low background alpha/beta counting system

A Kraishan, MA Shayeb, H Belmabrouk… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The study conducted in the northwest region of Jordan aimed to assess the levels of natural
radioactivity in soil and olive mill pomace (OMP) samples. The researchers used Nal (TI) …

Investigation of radioactive level of drinking water sources in the Upper Yangtze River of Chongqing city

Q Yang, L Wang, H Du, L Ge, X Lin, X Zhao… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2019 - Springer
The radioactivity and radiation levels in the Three Gorges reservoir area have been
performed using gross alpha and beta measurements and dose calculation, respectively …

Radiological impact of uranium and thorium in drinking water of Amman, Jordan

MBH Al-Bedri - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A low-background, hyper-pure germanium (HPGe) gamma-ray spectroscopy system was
used to measure uranium (238U) and a thorium (232Th) concentrations in Amman's drinking …