Kilimo Kwanza which means “Agriculture First” in English, is an initiative launched by the Tanzanian government in 2006 to spearhead the transformation of subsistence to commercial agriculture for curbing poverty. The ...

Water balance for Dar es Salaam Quaternary coastal aquifer (DQCA) was calculated according to the method of Thornthwaite and Mather. Monthly potential evapotranspiration estimates were calculated from 39 years (1971–2009) ...

The objective of this study is to assess the groundwater recharge in the Makutupora basin, Central Tanzania using the soil moisture balance (SMB) and chloride mass balance (CMB) methods. The SMB method considered the ...

Air pollution data, air quality index (AQI) data and L band sounding data of Wuhan City from January 1 to February 28, 2015, were used in this study. Since air quality is mainly determined by the condition of the atmospheric ...

The fact that groundwater exploitation has largely increased since 1997 in the Dar-es-Salaam aquifer, calls for a directed attention towards possible problems of aquifer overexploitation that may arise in the near future. ...

Groundwater is inherently susceptible to contamination from anthropogenic activities and remediation is very expensive and often impractical. Prevention of contamination is hence critical in effective groundwater management. ...

Climate variability, anthropogenic activities, and hydrological shifts are fueling the nuisance of harmful algal blooms in water bodies. Unfortunately, cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) dynamics have ...

Management of waste in most developing countries has become important for most of the cities as they try to curb and control city growth and urbanisation. The general norm where waste management had been the sole duty ...

Dar-es-Salaam City is the largest urban centre in Tanzania, with a population of over 4 million. It gets water for domestic use from surface water (Ruvu and Kizinga rivers) and groundwater. The groundwater was used to ...

The study was carried out to gather perceptions and experiences of the Uluguru mountains communities on climate change and its impacts, and to understand their traditional innovations in detecting climate change and coping ...