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The study aimed at assessing flood risk knowledge and adaptation capacity of individuals at Nkando in Group Village Headman Kalilima. The study used primary data only. A questionnaire was administered to a randomly selected 82 participants as a sample size. Key Informant Interview was done …
Disaster Risk Management
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The study has estimated the economic value of provisioning ecosystem services of Lichenza river. The objectives of this study were to identify the provisioning ecosystem services of Lichenza river, quantify the ecosystem services into monetary terms and assess the effective measures for restoring the ecological …
Water resources conservation
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Flooding is a global hazard resulting in disasters worth billions of dollars in losses. With the current trend and changes in climate, the frequency of flooding has increased over the years with once flood free areas being exposed to flooding. The intensity of flooding is …
Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
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The quest to promote women involvement in groundwater resource management is still facing challenges in Malawi ranging from cultural, religious and gender issues among others as pronounced by the society. It is against this background that the research observed that there is poor involvement of …
Water resources conservation
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Floods are the most devastating hazards that have significant adverse impacts on people and their livelihoods. Their impacts can be reduced by investing on: 1) improving the forecasting skills of extreme and heavy rainfall events, 2) development of Impacts Based Flood Early Warning System (IBFEWS) …
Climate change adaptation and loss and damage
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Flooding is a phenomenon which can occur if the quantity of water in the watershed exceeds the capacity of the stream, river and lake (Government of Malawi Disaster Risk Management Handbook 2013). Floods cause threats to life, environment and population. This study investigated the socio-economic …
Climate change and water resource crises
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Due to climate change and high population growth the occurrences of floods has significantly increase globally, with an impact on habitation and different sectors of the social life and economy. This, in turn, necessitates the use of different flood mitigation strategies, wherein flood vulnerability assessment …
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
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The assessment of a petroleum system is a crucial step in petroleum exploration, since it helps to determine the petroleum potential of an area. It facilitates key decision on whether further stages of exploration can be carried out. This paper has described the assessment of …
Exploration Geochemistry
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2022
ASSESSMENT OF RURAL HOUSEHOLD WATER TREATMENT IN T/A CHIMALIRO, THYOLO DISTRICT, SOUTHERN MALAWI
Access to drinking water from unsafe sources is widespread amongst communities in rural areas such as Thyolo District in Malawi. This situation puts many individuals and communities at risk of water borne diseases despite some households adopting household water treatment to improve the quality of …
Water resources conservation
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Senior Chief Mkanda’s jurisdiction has Likhubula river which is one of the water resources that used as a supplementary water source by Blantyre Water Board (BWB). This created some resistance, by the local people, which led to conflicts between the two parties (BWB and the …
Water resources conservation
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This research aimed at comparing tea healthy status of satemwa tea field. Earth observation data downloaded on united states geological survey has been used which include Landsat 7 images from which Land surface temperature, Normalized difference vegetation index, soil adjusted vegetation index, spectral signatures and …
Environmental Modelling
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This study aimed at updating the basement of central Malawi using magnetic and gravity data since the current basement complex for central Malawi map has missing features that have been concealed by the soils and sedimentary cover that made it difficult for the mapping of …
Geology
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