The impact of agricultural runoff on the quality of two streams in vegetable farm areas in Ghana

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 696-703

  Ntow, William J ^a   Drechsel, Pay ^b   Botwe, Benjamin Osei ^c   Kelderman, Peter ^d   Gijzen, Huub J ^e  

^a CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^d UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^e Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Indonesia   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; PESTICIDES; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

CHLORPYRIFOS; ENDOSULFAN; STREAMBED SEDIMENTS; VEGETABLE FIELD RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

CHLORPYRIFOS; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; GHANA; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); VEGETABLE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; CHLORPYRIFOS; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GHANA; INSECTICIDES; RIVERS; SEASONS; VEGETABLES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 40849127058     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0136     Document Type: Article

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