Water quality management and sustainability: The experience of Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) - Tanzania

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 20-27, 2003, Pages 1111-1115

  Machiwa, Praxeda K ^a  

^a Water Quality/EcosystMgmtComponent   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Catchment; Eutrophication; Lake Victoria; Management; Pollution loading; Sustainability; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; DETERIORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; HEALTH; LAKES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

POPULATION GROWTH;

WATER QUALITY;

LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

LAKE VICTORIA; TANZANIA;

EID: 0141941071     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2003.08.032     Document Type: Article

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