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  Assessment of Pollution Status and Vulnerability of Water Supply Aquifers of African Cities

Is a joint Project of UNEP-DEWA in collaboration with UNESCO-IHP as the implementing agency, UN-Habitat and ECA as regional and political partners. The project aims to build on the successes achieved in earlier work ( see "Urban Pollution of Surficial and Groundwater Aquifers in Africa") carried out in six (Benin, Burkina Faso, CÔte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Senegal) West African countries and includes four new Anglophone countries i.e. Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia. Its aim is to determine the status and vulnerability of groundwater supplies in cities of the selected countries, establish a network for exchange of related information, and develop suitable methodologies for assessing and monitoring of real and potential contamination of shallow and deeper groundwater aquifers ...
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