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Influence of Water Availability on Food Crop Production in Semi-Arid Areas in Kibwezi District, Makueni County, Kenya
(Arts Humanit, 2015)
Ecosystems provide essential services like water regulation and other processes which sustain and fulfill human life by directly or indirectly supporting humans‟ survival and quality of life. However, there is insufficient ...
Relationship Between Water Quality Indicators And Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In The Kuywa River, Kenya
(2017)
The Kuywa River watershed has undergone riparian vegetation planting since 2006 in order to improve the river health. The planted riparian buffer zone vegetation was to improve channel stability, promote biodiversity, and ...
Impact of Land Use /Cover dynamics on Streamflow: A Case of Nzoia River Catchment, Kenya
(Nile Basin Water Science& Engineering Journal, 2010)
Degradation of watershed areas in Kenya’s basins is on the increase and is currently a major concern for the government. The main causes of watershe d degradation stem from the abuse and poor management of forests and ...
Late Pleistocene artefacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012)
Surveys and excavations in 2009 2011 recovered fossil and artefact assemblages
from late Pleistocene sediments on Rusinga and Mfangano islands (Lake Victoria,
Kenya). Radiometric age estimates suggest that the Rusinga ...
Land Cover Change and Its Socio-Economic Impact on the Residents of the Mara River, Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019)
Anthropogenic activities are increasingly catalyzing natural climatic factors that drive land cover change at different spatial scales. Available land cover data of the Mara River basin however give a broader picture of ...
Effects of water physico-chemical parameters on tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) growth in earthen ponds in Teso North Sub-County, Busia County
(BioMed Central, 2017)
Small-scale fish farmers in developing countries are faced with challenges owing to their limited information on aquaculture management. Nile tilapia farmers in Teso North Sub-County recorded lower yields than expected in ...
Status of the Sondu-Miriu River fish species diversity and fisheries: Sondu-Miriu Hydro-Power Project (SMHPP) operations
(Academic Journals, 2013)
The Sondu-Miriu Hydroelectric Power Project (SMHPP) is a run-of-the-river hydro-power project on the Sondu-Miriu River, Kenya. The part of the river studied: between the Sondu Bridge upstream, and Osodo Bay on L. Victoria, ...
Effects of land use types on the levels of microbial contamination based on total coliform and Escherischia coli count on the Mara River, East Africa
(2013)
The effects of land use types on levels of microbial contamination based on total coliforms and E. coli (faecal coliform) levels was investigated in the Mara River system, Kenya and Tanzania. Water samples were taken from ...
Beach Community-Designed System To Ameliorate Water Quality Deterioration in Catchments of Lake Victoria
(BENTHAM Open, 2012)
Water quality and socio-economic status of beach communities was studied in the Thruston Bay catchments of Lake Victoria. The major aim of the study was to establish the relation between water quality and socio-economic ...
Opportunities from Satellite Observation Systems in Climate Risk Mitigation: The Case of Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
(International Journal of Science and Research, 2012)
One of the key findings in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) is that millions of people globally will be
exposed to increased water stress due to climate change. With over three quarters of Africa falling under arid and ...