A comprehensive review of water quality monitoring and assessment in Nigeria

JO Ighalo, AG Adeniyi - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Nigeria is the most populated black nation in the world with about 199 million people. About
66.3 million Nigerians do not have access to safe drinking water. In this study, research …

Scenario-based analysis of the impacts of lake drying on food production in the Lake Urmia Basin of Northern Iran

B Feizizadeh, T Lakes, D Omarzadeh, A Sharifi… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
In many parts of the world, lake drying is caused by water management failures, while the
phenomenon is exacerbated by climate change. Lake Urmia in Northern Iran is drying up at …

[HTML][HTML] Water quality assessment of bitumen polluted Oluwa river, South-Western Nigeria

TA Ayandiran, OO Fawole, SO Dahunsi - Water Resources and Industry, 2018 - Elsevier
This study was aimed at establishing a water quality database in the study area where none
existed previously. Samples were taken from two different sites of River Oluwa, South …

Effects of short-term selenium exposure on respiratory activity and proximate body composition of early-life stages of Catla catla, Labeo rohita and Cirrhinus mrigala

K Dhara, AV Chukwuka, S Saha, NC Saha… - Environmental toxicology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal exposure impairs respiration, increases metabolic demand, and reduces energy
storage/fitness in aquatic species. Respiratory impairment and energy storage was …

Groundwater contamination and health risk assessment across an urban gradient: Case study of Onitcha metropolis, south-eastern Nigeria

N Chinye-Ikejiunor, GO Iloegbunam… - Groundwater for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban population growth in south-Eastern Nigeria and associated proliferation of built-up
areas predispose groundwater to contaminants of anthropogenic origin. This study …

Effects of anthropogenic activities on water quality within Ngong river sub-catchment, Nairobi, Kenya

M Ngatia, SM Kithiia, M Voda - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic activities often compromise the water quality of natural water systems,
rendering it unfit for domestic and agricultural use. This paper evaluates the effects of …

Watershed land use, surface water vulnerability and public health risks of two urban rivers, Ado-Ekiti, South-West Nigeria

AI Owokotomo, OO Ajayi, OO Alabi, AV Chukwuka - SN Applied Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The disruption of watersheds due to indiscriminate land use and urban development
increases the vulnerability of adjacent surface water to contaminants of anthropogenic …

Gonad pathology and intersex severity in pelagic (Tilapia zilli) and benthic (Neochanna diversus and Clarias gariepinus) species from a pesticide-impacted agrarian …

A Chukwuka, O Ogbeide, G Uhunamure - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Pesticides are distributed to different degrees in surface water and sediment, thus, risks of
toxicity and adverse impacts to physiology of resident species could be determined by their …

A GIS-based spatiotemporal impact assessment of droughts in the hyper-saline Urmia Lake Basin on the hydro-geochemical quality of nearby aquifers

B Feizizadeh, Z Abdollahi, B Shokati - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urmia Lake is a hyper-saline lake in northwestern Iran that has been drying up since 2005.
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the water quality in aquifers that are the …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrological connectivity, surface water quality and distribution of fish species within sub-locations of an urban oxbow lake, East India

S Saha, AV Chukwuka, D Mukherjee, NC Saha… - Watershed Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecological processes and distribution of biodiversity within river floodplains are driven by the
hydrological regime of the area. The relationship between fish abundance/diversity and …