Print Email Facebook Twitter Fate and Transport of Nutrients in Groundwater and Surface Water in an Urban Slum Catchment Kampala, Uganda Title Fate and Transport of Nutrients in Groundwater and Surface Water in an Urban Slum Catchment Kampala, Uganda Author Nyenje, P. Contributor Uhlenbrook, S. (promotor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water management Date 2014-09-15 Abstract This study investigates the generation, transport and fate of sanitation-related nutrients in groundwater and surface water in an urban slum area in sub-Saharan Africa. In excess, nutrients can cause eutrophication of downstream water bodies. The study argues that nitrogen-containing rains and domestic wastewater from slum areas were important sources of nutrients in urban catchments. Contrary to surface water, nutrients were greatly attenuated in groundwater by the pit latrine-alluvial aquifer system implying that interventions to manage nutrients in slum areas should focus on surface water. This research is of broad interest as urbanisation in developing countries is an ongoing trend that is accompanied by lack proper sanitation systems. Subject eutrophicationhydrochemistrynutrientsslumson-site sanitationsub-Saharan Africagroundwatersurface water To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:62b2a93b-509b-4635-99d9-c351389a1255 Publisher CRC Press/Balkema Coordinates 0.35, 32.55 ISBN 9781138027152 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2014 Nyenje, P. Files PDF 2014_UNESCO-IHE_PHD_Thesi ... NYENJE.pdf 6.39 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:62b2a93b-509b-4635-99d9-c351389a1255/datastream/OBJ/view