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Waste minimization: water use in a Kenyan milk powder factory
(Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, 1997)Water consumption was measured in a milk processing plant which primarily produces milk powder and butter. There is no milk powder production in the dry season, when the milk is pasteurized and taken elsewhere for packaging. ... -
Waste on Land-Pollution at Sea: Priorities for Action in the East African Region
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Wasted Lives: Internally Displaced Persons Living in Camps in Kenya
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Private Law, 2010)This article evaluates the protection that the Government of Kenya off ered to those who fled to camps in the wake of the post-election violence that gripped the country in 2007. It focuses on basic needs, social economic ... -
Water access and sustainable rural livelihoods: A c ase of Elementaita Division in Nakuru County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-01-12)This study assessed water factors that impact susta inable rural livelihoods in Elementaita Division, N akuru County. Problem of water access remains a multi-million cha llenge for families in rural areas and this had ... -
Water and sanitation service delivery, pricing, and the poor: An empirical estimate of subsidy incidence in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016)The increasing block tariff (IBT) is among the most widely used tariffs by water utilities, particularly in developing countries. This is due in part to the perception that the IBT can effectively target subsidies to ... -
Water and Sanitation Services in Low Income Areas of Nairobi
(1994)This paper provides an overview of the state of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) by local authorities in Kenya as a case study of a low-income developing country. Approaches of possible solutions that can be undertaken ... -
Water and Sanitation Services in Low Income Areas of Nairobi (in: Low Income Area Water Supply and Sanitation in Selected African Cities
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Water and the UN sustainable development goals
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Water is essential for life, but we need to balance human needs with those of the environment on which we depend for our wellbeing, our health and much of our wealth. Not all of us are lucky enough to have access to ... -
Water Availability Analysis of Multiple Source Groundwater Supply Systems in Water Stressed Urban Centers Case of Lodwar Municipality Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Ensuring water security to urban population in fragile environments through interlinked systems of groundwater abstraction, storage and distribution of sufficient quantity is challenging especially to urban utilities ... -
Water availability and its influence on the structure and dynamics of a savannah large mammal community
(University of Nairobi, 1975-12)The Amboseli ecosystem is in a semi-arid savannah environment in which water availability is highly seasonal, a feature which has an important bearing on the structure and efficiency of the large mammal community. Data ... -
Water balance and osmotic regulation in the East African tenebrionid beetle Phrynocolus petrosus
(University of NairobiDepartment of Animal Physiology, 1987)1. When tenebrionid beetles of the species Phrynocolus petrosus undergo evaporative dehydration, the relative water content changes less than is predictable from the water loss alone. The discrepancy from the predictable ... -
Water balance and the utilization of water resources of Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Geography and Environmental Studies, 1979) -
Water balance of beetles as an indicator of environmental humidity
(Department of Veterinary Physiology, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 1989) -
Water Balance of The Mtera ? Kidatu Reservoir System System
(Department of Environmental and Biosystems Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1999)We investigated whether resistant pollen genotypes can be selected for when the maternal plants are infected and whether infection can result to changes in the pistil nutrient level influencing reproductive outcome. Both ... -
Water circulation dynamics, water column nutrients and plankton productivity in a well-flushed tropical bay in Kenya
(Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI)Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, 1996)Water circulation, water column nutrients and plankton productivity were studied in a tropical bay with high rates of water exchange (60% to 90% per tide) and short residence times (3 to 4 h). The water circulation is ... -
The water content of muscle and cuticle of the woodlouse Oniscus asellus in conditions of hydration and desiccation.
(Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University o0f Nairobi, 1976) -
Water Credit Viability Assessment in the Mara River Basin- Bomet and Narok South Districts, Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, 2009) -
Water Disinfection Techniques: A review
(University of Nairobi, 2021)Water pollution, inadequate water supply and poor waste treatment facilities have greatly contributed to diarrheal and other water borne disease conditions. Regular presence of Escherichia coli and other coliforms are ... -
Water Fluoride in the Molo Division of Nakuru District, Kenya
(1995)Water samples were collected from 40 households in four sublocations of the Molo division of the Rift Valley in Nakuru District of Kenya. The mean fluoride concentration was 0.28 ± 0.03 ppm. Of the samples collected, ...