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Title POPULATION GROWTH, URBANIZATION AND WATER SUPPLY: A GROWING CHALLENGE TO HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE PERI-URBAN INTERFACE IN GHANA
Full text http://dspace.knust.edu.gh/dspace/handle/123456789/846
Date 2001
Author(s) Nsiah-Gyabaah, K.
Abstract An adequate supply of potable water is essential for socio-economic development. However, many people in developing countries especially Africa have inadequate water supplies. In many African countries, land degradation is increasing and water resources are under threat through rapid growth and urbanization. Human activities such as poor agricultural practices, inappropriate domestic and industrial waste disposal methods and destruction of watersheds are exacerbating water pollution Another area of concern is the danger of prolonged drought and over exploitation of available ground water resources resulting of increasing population and urban sprawl, leading to the drastic fall in water levels with consequences of failing hand pumps, wells and water shortage in the urban and pert-urban areas. This paper examines the relationship between population dynamics and water supply in the pen-urban interface because the health, ecological and environmental problems facing poor households in the pert-urban areas ate either directly or indirectly linked to population growth and urbanization dynamics.
Publisher KNUST
Identifier 0855-0395
Repository Kumasi - Kwame Nkrumah University
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