Effects of sewage and industrial effluent on the concentration of Zn, Cu, Pb and Cd in water and sediments along Waterfalls stream and lower Mukuvisi River in Harare, Zimbabwe

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 8-13, 2008, Pages 708-713

  Nyamangara, J ^a   Bangira, C ^a   Taruvinga, T ^a   Masona, C ^a   Nyemba, A ^a   Ndlovu, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Industrial effluent; Sediments; Sewage effluent

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; COPPER ALLOYS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; PH EFFECTS; POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

BEFORE AND AFTER; DOWN-STREAM; FOOD CHAINS; HARARE , ZIMBABWE; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS; INDUSTRIAL AREAS; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL POLLUTION; PROCESSING PLANTS; RIVER WATERS; SAMPLING SITES; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; DEVELOPING WORLD; EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEAD; PH; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEWAGE; STREAM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

AFRICA; HARARE [ZIMBABWE]; MUKUVISI RIVER; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 48949090011     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.06.053     Document Type: Article

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