Potential of simple filters to improve microbial quality of irrigation water used in urban vegetable farming in Ghana

Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 749-755

  Keraita, Bernard ^a,b,d   Drechsel, Pay ^a   Konradsen, Flemming ^b   Vreugdenhil, Reinout C ^c  

^a International Water Management Institute IWMI   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Fabric filters; Low cost wastewater treatment; Microbial contamination; Slow sand filters; Urban agriculture

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; IRRIGATION; REMOVAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FABRIC FILTERS; LOW-COST WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; SLOW SAND FILTERS; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

BIOFILTERS;

NYLON;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COST; COTTON; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FILTER; FILTRATION; FLOW RATE; GHANA; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT TOLERANCE; HELMINTH; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MICROORGANISM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SAND; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AGRICULTURE; FILTRATION; GHANA; IRRIGATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VEGETABLES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; VERMES;

EID: 42649112468     PISSN: 10934529     EISSN: 15324117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10934520801959948     Document Type: Article

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