deaths 8.39/1000 Urbanization percentage: 59% 82% Infant mortality rate: 85.53/1000 5.98/1000 Life expectancy at birth: 54.59 78.49 Literacy rate: 64.4% 99% Major infectious diseases: Diarrhea‚ hepatitis A‚ typhoid‚ Malaria‚ schistosomiasis Hepatitis‚ influenza‚ malaria‚ typhoid fever Prevalence of HIV/AIDS: 2% .6% Languages:
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SOLID WASTE‚ HAZARDOUS AND TOXIC WASTE MANAGEMENT. ENVS411 MWAMKO MPYA PROJECT. Mwamko Mpya project funded by Comic Relief seeks to improve the quality of life for communities at Kaptembwo and Rhonda. The goal of the project is to reach total sanitation coverage in the low income settlements‚ thereby eliminating Open Defecation and change towards improved hygiene practices both at the schools and at household levels. The Bio Center is a project done together with Umande Trust and Practical
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communities: - impacts on health‚ & economic‚ social‚ cultural well-being Loss of community control over water: - transfer of control from local level Diseases: - encouraged by dam projects (creating habitat for parasites)‚ e.g. schistosomiasis‚ mosquitoes Increasing cost of dams: - problems encountered in building dams (ex. sedimentation). - cost of mitigating social‚ environmental impacts. - delays - best sites already taken -- only more remote‚ more difficult sites left
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background Information Techire‚ originally called Tano Twere by the first settlers‚ is one of the communities located in the Tano north district of Ghana. The community has a total population of approximately four thousand‚ seven hundred and seventy five according to the assembly man of the community. Techire is located along the Sunyani -Kumasi highway and shares boundaries with Adrobaa‚ Afrisipa‚ Koforidua and yamfo communities all in the Tano north district. Techire
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GEOG1016 Nature Conservation for Sustainable Societies Guidelines on the use of the pdf files of lecture handouts: (1) The files shall only be used by registered students of the course for learning purpose only. (2) The files must not be transmitted in any form to any third parties who are not registered students of the course. (3) The copyrights of all the texts and illustrations in the files must be strictly observed‚ and they must not be copied or used in any way outside the realm of normal learning use
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Impact on occupational safety and health for higher labour productivity Occupational health and safety is about ensuring a safe workplace. For resource recovery facilities this includes staff employed at the factory as well as contractors and the public. Occupational health and safety is a discipline with a broad scope involving many specialized fields. In its broadest sense‚ it should aim at: * The promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical‚ mental and social well-being of
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CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1.1 INTRODUCTION It is naturally believed that‚ water is a non negotiable and vital resource necessary for human life‚ survival and development. According to Parfit(2008)‚ ‘’Where there is no water‚ there is no life’’. According to Wang (1987) ‘’Water ranks first among all the basic natural resources essential to life (water‚ food‚ shelter and clothing).It makes up to 90% of human body’s volume and two-third (2/3) of its weight (Ajao 1995).Hence
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British Broadcasting CorporationBBC Accessibility links Skip to content Skip to local navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk search Accessibility Help History Ancient History British History World Wars Historic Figures Family History Hands on History History for Kids On This Day Ancient Egypt and the Modern World By Dr Joyce Tyldesley Last updated 2011-02-17 The Rosetta Stone There has long been
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Water Quality Raychel Rizzo 1/26/2013 Trent Sorensen SCI/275 Pollution is a world-wide spread problem that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Water pollution is a big worry considering that water is essential to all living and nonliving things. As Adrian Armstrong (2006) says in his article Ethical issues in water use and sustainability‚ “...water is valuable‚ because we need it‚ and so we protect it in so far as it benefits us” (p. 10) The main problems
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Introduction to Aquaculture. MCQS. 1. The science of raising aquatic plants or animals is: (a) Apiculture (B) Sericulture (c) Aquaculture (d) Pisciculture 2. Aquaculture is totally dependent on the: (a) Quality of H2O (b) Quantity of H2O (c) Both quality & quantity of H2O (d) None of above 3. The newest kind of aquaculture in which cleaning & reusing of H2O occurs is: (a) Pens (b) Ponds (c) River (d) Recirculating tanks
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