1. Investigation into the suitability of well water near cassava processing areas for drinking and irrigation purposes
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Toyese Friday Oyewusi, Adekola Taiwo, and Jimmy Akinfemi Osunbitan
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Global and Planetary Change ,Irrigation ,Environmental Engineering ,Coliform bacterial count ,Cyanide ,Irrigation uses ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Contamination ,Drinking water quality ,Total dissolved solids ,Pollution ,Ion ,Environmental sciences ,Cassava processing effluent ,Environmental chemistry ,Sodium adsorption ratio ,Environmental science ,GE1-350 ,Turbidity ,Waste Management and Disposal ,Groundwater ,Total suspended solids - Abstract
Water used for domestic and irrigation purposes are sometime contaminated by organic and inorganic pollutants from cassava processing centres. Accordingly, groundwater from ten randomly wells were analyzed for pH, turbidity, total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), electrical conductivity (EC), sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), CN−, Na+, K+, Ca++, Mg++ and NO3− ion concentrations and the microbial content to determine the suitability of these waters for drinking and/or irrigation purposes. The qualitative analysis reveals that all the ten sites recorded permissible of limits for TDS (
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- 2021
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