Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge
The key challenges for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture are to reduce farm contaminant lost into water systems while encourage agriculture to generate or conserve a ...
Improving the Quantity, Quality and Use of Africa’s Water
According to the 2006 UNDP Human Development Report, governments need to spend about one per cent of GDP on water and sanitation. Additionally, increased international aid would play a very crucial ...
Water and Soil Analysis
Eijkelkamp Soil & Water makes a difference worldwide by developing, producing and delivering solutions for soil and water projects. ...
Groundwater Management
According to a recent study by the Legislatvie Analyst’s Office, during years where surface water is not available and rainfall is scarce, groundwater may provide up to 100 percent of irrigation water ...
On-line real-time water quality monitoring for bacterial contamination of water
ColiMinder® is a fully automated measurement system for detection of bacterial contamination in water created in Austria. ColiMinder CMI is able to detect ultra-sensitively faecal or total ...
Developing new ways to remove or inactivate pathogens in water
Waterborne pathogens are a major health threat and must be eliminated to guarantee safe usage of water for potable purposes. For this purpose, a new carbon-based nanomaterial composed of single-walled ...
Identification of the risk factors for infection by unsafe water
Symptoms and risk factors of parasites infection in children by unsafe water. Significant risk factors for infection, besides living within the distribution area of contaminated water plants, included ...
Alternative drinking-water disinfectants
Disinfection of drinking-water supplies has been one of the most significant public health advancements of the last century with respect to reducing waterborne disease. Although chlorine has been used ...
Solutions
Do you have a solution that matches one of the identified water-related needs of African stakeholders? Please submit it to the AfriAlliance Solutions Hub here.