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Adaptable Improved Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems for Urban Settlements in Developing Countries

Kihila, Jacob M.; Balengayabo, Jonas G. (Cogent Environmental Science, 2020)

Onsite sanitation is widely adopted in developing countries. Septic tanks being one of the onsite treatment systems is still adopted and scaled up especially in urban settlements. But, experience shows that septic tanks ...
Assessment of Fire Emergency Preparedness in Public and Private Hospitals: A Case Study of Four Hospitals in Dar es salaam Region

Simon, Haika; Salukele, Fredrick; Sweya, Lukuba; Muhondwa, Patrick (SSRN, 2022)

Fire incidences are a common phenomenon in Tanzania despite the country’s limited hospital fires records. This study intended to assess fire emergency preparedness in public and private hospitals of Dar es Salaam Region ...
Assessment of Flood Risk Perception and Coping Strategies in Flood Prone Areas: The Case of Msasani Bonde la Mpunga, Dar es salaam, Tanzania

Salukele, Fredrick; Toamukum, Nsani Yannick; Mayunga, Joseph (Civil Environmental Research, 2017)

In recent years, perception of flood risks has become an important topic to policy makers concerned with flood risk management and safety issues. Knowledge of public risk perception is considered a crucial aspect in ...
Assessment of Heavy Metals Contamination in Fish Cultured in Selected Private Fishponds and Associated Public Health Risk Concerns, Dar es salaam, Tanzania

Leonard, Leopord Sibomana; Mahenge, Anesi; Mudara, Nehemia (Marine Science and Technology Bulletin, 2022)

Environmental pollution caused by the increase of heavy metals concentration in aquatic and terrestrial environments is a growing global concern due to their nature and toxicity. This paper aimed to undertake an assessment ...
Biases and Environmental Risks in Urban Africa: Household Solid Waste Decision-Making

Wernstedt, Kris; Kihila, Jacob M.; Kaseva, Mengiseny (Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2020)

We argue in this paper that the urban environmental planning and management literature has paid insufficient attention to the nexus of risk and human psychology in urban dynamics, particularly for the rapidly urbanizing ...
Climate Change and Declining Levels of Green Structures: Life in Informal Settlements of Dar es salaam, Tanzania

Roy, Manoj; Shemdoe, Riziki; Hulme, David; Mwageni, Nicholaus; Gough, Alex (Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018)

Impacts of climate change are often acute for those who live in informal settlements, the places where poverty, inequality and deprivation are concentrated in cities across the developing world. To broaden the strategies ...
Climate Change and Declining Levels of Green Structures: Life in Informal Settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Roy, Manoj; Shemdoe, Riziki; Hulme, David; Mwageni, Nicholaus; Gough, Alex (Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018)

Impacts of climate change are often acute for those who live in informal settlements, the places where poverty, inequality and deprivation are concentrated in cities across the developing world. To broaden the strategies ...
Climate Change Impacts on Water Quality of Water Bodies-A Review

Salila, Eliud; Sharma, Mahendra Pal; Singh, Rajesh (International Journal of Environment and Climate Change, 2020)

The impacts of climate change on water quality of water bodies are associated with the climatic extreme events (heavy rainfall and flood, heat, drought, wildfires, cyclones, hurricane, super storms) as the major drivers ...
Comparative Analysis of Non-Infrastructural Impacts of Floods Case Study: 2011 And 2014 Floods in Dar es salaam

Salukele, Fredrick; Chale, Dokela (Civil Environmental Research, 2017)

This study compared and analysed the non -infrastructural impacts of 2011 and 2014 floods disaster in Dar es Salaam. This study area particularly involved the 15 wards in Dar es Salaam. Both qualitative and quantitative ...
Developing a Tool to Measure the Organizational Resilience of Tanzania's Water Supply Systems

Sweya, Lukuba N.; Wilkinson, Suzanne; Kassenga, Gabriel; Mayunga, Joseph (Global Business and Organizational Excellence, 2020)

Confronted with serious environmental challenges, water supply organizations in Tanzania struggle to prioritize and allocate resources to building resilience to floods so that they can provide uninterrupted service or ...
Development of a Tool to Measure Resilience Against Floods for Water Supply Systems in Tanzania

Sweya, Lukuba N.; Wilkinson, Suzanne; Mayunga, Joseph; Joseph, Aron; Lugomela, George; Victor, John (Journal of Management in Engineering, 2020)

Resilience of water supply systems (WSS) needs improvements to better cope with flood impacts. Resilience in Tanzania, given its significance, remains a theoretical concept. Yet increasing interest from the water industry ...
Disinfection of Fecal Sludge using Solar Thermal Water Heating: Sludge Management Option for Developing Countries

Sweya, Lukuba N.; Mgana, Shaaban M. (Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2020)

This study investigates a solar thermal water heating system that is effective in drying and disinfecting fecal sludge (FS) and recovering nutrients and water resources that happen to have fertility values for agricultural ...
Drivers of Human‒Wildlife Interactions in a Co-Existence Area: a Case Study of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

Linuma, Oswin F.; Mahenge, Anesi S.; Mato, Rubhera R. A. M.; Greenwood, Alex D. (Discover Sustainability, 2022)

Communities in Africa bordering national parks or protected areas commonly overlap with wildlife. However, it is unclear to what degree such overlaps result in interactions with wildlife. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area ...
The Effect of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete on the Survival and Growth of Launaea Cornuta and Sporobolus Jacquemontii Grown in Heavy Metal Polluted Soils: A Greenhouse Study

Mkumbo, Stalin; Mwegoha, William; Kihampa, Charles (Journal of Building and Land Development, 2019)

This study aimed at evaluating the effect of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) (waste from construction activities) on the survival and growth of Launaea cornuta (Oliv & Hiern) C. Jeffrey and Sporobolus jacquemontii K., ...
Effect of Recurrent Irrigation with Treated Sewage from Anaerobic Digester Coupled with Anaerobic Baffled Reactor on Soil Fertility

Balengayabo, Jonas G.; Kassenga, Gabriel R.; Mgana, Shabaan M.; Salukele, Fredrick (International Journal of Environment, 2022)

Growing recognition of treated wastewater as a resource is among the factors influencing its reuse in agriculture worldwide. Long-term effect of irrigation with treated wastewater on soil is widely reported; however, the ...
Effectiveness of Crude Extract and Purified Protein from Vigna Unguiculata Seed in Purification of Charco Dam Water for Drinking in Tanzania

Marobhe, Nancy Jotham (International Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2013)

Due to chronic water supply problems prevailing in most rural areas of Tanzania, households are obliged to use man made water reservoirs (charco dams) for drinking after receiving inadequate treatment using powdered seeds ...
Effects of Seasonal Change and Seawater Intrusion on Water Quality for Drinking and Irrigation Purposes, in Coastal Aquifers of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Sappa, Giuseppe; Ergul, Sibel; Ferranti, Flavia; Sweya, Lukuba Ngalya; Luciani, Giulia (Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2015)

Groundwater is the major source to meet domestic, industrial and agricultural needs in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. However, population growth, increasing urbanization, industrialization and tourism, and climatic ...
Fluorine and Copper Accumulation in Lettuce Grown on Fluoride and Copper Contaminated Soils

Senkondo, Yasin H.; Mkumbo, Stalin; Sospeter, P. (Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 2018)

Presence of copper (Cu) and fluorine (F) in soils pose a risk of food web contamination when crops are grown on such soils. Greenhouse experiments involving 34 soil samples were carried out to explore the uptake of F and ...
Government and Community Involvement in Environmental Protection and Flood Risk Management: Lessons from Keko Machungwa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Sakijege, Tumpale; Sartohadi, Junun; Marfai, Muh Aris; Kassenga, Gabriel; Kasala, Samson (Journal of Environmental Protection, 2014)

Since the 1960s, most cities in developing countries have faced a high rate of urbanization, which in turn has caused more harm to low-income earners, in urban areas. A majority of low-income earners most often face ...
Groundwater Age Dating and Recharge Mechanism of Arusha Aquifer, Northern Tanzania: Application of Radioisotope and Stable Isotope Techniques

Chacha, Nyamboge; Njau, Karoli N.; Lugomela, George V.; Muzuka, Alfred N. N. (Hydrogeol Journal, 2018)

The continuous abstraction of groundwater from Arusha aquifers in northern Tanzania has resulted in a decline in water levels and subsequent yield reduction in most production wells. The situation is threatening sustainability ...

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