Environmental And Watershed Degradation Factors Influencing Afara And Umudere Rivers In Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
A bi-weekly study to
determine the environmental and watershed degradation factors influencing Afara
and Umudere rivers were carried out between June to November 2002 A 6 X 4
factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design with three
replications was used to assess the relationship between the physico-chemical
characteristics (temperature, pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, biochemical
oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), free carbondioxide (CO2),
and total hardness) of water samples at four locations — Golden Guinea
wastewater, Umuahia sewerage wastewater, Alhra river and Uinudeic river
respectively. Structured questionnaires were administered to the inhabitants of
the three villages that own Alara river watershed this was analyzed using a
multiple regression analysis to determine the level of degradation and lhctors
affecting the management of the watershed resources with six hypotheses
postulated from priori knowledge. This showed that adoption of conservation
measures, income level, security of tenure, family size, and fallow period
conformed to the priori expectations/hypotheses and three out of the seven
independent variables were significant
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ONYEIZU, U (2021). Environmental And Watershed Degradation Factors Influencing Afara And Umudere Rivers In Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria.. Repository.mouau.edu.ng: Retrieved Nov 29, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/environmental-and-watershed-degradation-factors-influencing-afara-and-umudere-rivers-in-umuahia-abia-state-nigeria-7-2
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UCHENNA, ONYEIZU. "Environmental And Watershed Degradation Factors Influencing Afara And Umudere Rivers In Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria." Repository.mouau.edu.ng (2021). Accessed 29 Nov. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/environmental-and-watershed-degradation-factors-influencing-afara-and-umudere-rivers-in-umuahia-abia-state-nigeria-7-2