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Water Quality Changes Associated with Cassava Production: Case Study of White Volta Bain
Alfred Awotwi1, Michael Asare Bediako2, Emmanuel Harris3
1Department of Civil Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Abstract:
The outcome reveal that as the land use in the catchment areas change from mixed agricultural to cassava cultivation, the simulated loads and concentrations of nitrogen species from cassava land-use scenario recorded reduction. The resultant concentrations of nitrate and nitrite for both current and future land-use scenarios are all below the daily limit suggested by the WHO, (World Health Organization). For the phosphate concentration, an increase of 4.21% was depicted under cassava land-use scenario. The results show that SWAT is a reliable water quality model, capable of simulating accurate information for developing environmental management plans.
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