There is a need for an inexpensive, reliable and fast monitoring tool to detect contaminants
in a short time, for quick mitigation of pollution sources and site remediation, and for …

Africa is blessed with natural and mineral resources, but exploitation of these resources has
led to extreme pollution of the environment. Population growth and urbanization due to …

Groundwater resources are important sources of drinking water in Africa, and they are
hugely important in sustaining urban livelihoods and supporting a diverse range of …

Water is vital to agriculture. It is essential that the water used for the production of fresh
produce commodities be safe. Microbial pathogens are able to survive for extended periods …

As rural African communities experience more frequent and extreme droughts, it is
increasingly important that water supplies are climate resilient. Using a unique temporal …

This study has been conducted to appraise the concentrations of selected heavy metals and
total dissolved solids (TDSs) in the drinking water from shallow wells in parts of Ibadan …

Members of the family Arcobacteraceae are distributed widely in aquatic environments, and
some of its species have been associated with human and animal illness. However …

Online monitoring dissolved organic matter (DOM) is urgent for water treatment
management. In this study, high performance size exclusion chromatography with multi-UV …

Microbial water quality is frequently assessed with a risk indicator approach that relies on
Escherichia coli. Relying exclusively on E. coli is limiting, particularly in low-resource …

We assess the use of fluorescent dissolved organic matter at excitation-emission
wavelengths of 280 nm and 360 nm, termed tryptophan-like fluorescence (TLF), as an …