Effects of Land Use on the Chemical Characterization of Imo River Basin and Its Catchments (Nigeria): A GIS Approach
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_30" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_30</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_30" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-01440-7_30</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of Land Use on the Chemical Characterization of Imo River Basin and Its Catchments (Nigeria): A GIS Approach
Original language description
Water sources have been severely contaminated by heavy metals (HM) in Imo river basin due to different land uses including industrialization and intensive agriculture. Six land use types were identified using GIS and water samples were collected from both surface and underground water sources to test the HM concentrations in different land uses. Geostatistical tools such as interpolation (Kriging) and regressions were used to determine the extent of chemical concentrations, and their relationships with the land use types. Higher concentrations of the heavy metals (NO3, Cr, and Pb) were observed in the center (middle stream watershed) around the urban built and grassland areas. Downstream watershed (wetlands areas) had low concentrations of the HM except Fe. The water quality in the built-up industrial areas were found to be of poor quality relative to other parts in the study area. The findings of this work will support the Federal Ministries of Water resources, Agriculture, Environment in sustainable decision making towards reducing pollutants and restoring the river basin and its catchments.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications.
ISBN
978-3-030-01439-1
Number of pages of the result
4
Pages from-to
125-129
Number of pages of the book
361
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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