Environmental Management and Health: Volume 9 Issue 4

Development and implementation of environmental monitoring and information systems for water resources

Chrysanthus Chukwuma

Attempts to examine the principles which lead to the exploration procedures to obviate environmental and natural resource degradation. The present and future state of water…

A study of airborne minerals and associated organic species in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Kamal T. Hindy, Ashraf R. Baghdady

Deals with a study of the mineralogical and organic components of the monthly dust‐fall deposited over Al Ain city, some 150km east of Abu Dhabi and 130km south‐east of Dubai. The…

The use of biosolids from wastewater treatment plants in agriculture

Rüdiger Frank

The global population explosion and the accompanying industrialisation have resulted, on the one hand in an increase in wastewater volumes and an almost innumerable list of…

Adsorption of nickel and mercury from drinking water simulant by activated carbon

Hussein I. Abdel‐Shafy, Mamdouh F. Abdel‐Sabour, Raouf O. Aly

The removal of nickel and mercury from drinking water, using powdered activated carbon (PAC) and granular activated carbon (GAC) was studied intensively. The water studied was…

Trace element contamination of rain water in the semi‐arid region of Kano, Nigeria

J.T. Ayodele, M.B. Abubakar

Atmospheric precipitation samples collected by a network of eight stations throughout the Kano metropolis were analysed for lead, chromium, copper, cadmium, zinc and nickel by…