在加纳阿桑提阿基姆中央区评估地下水质量
Augustine Owusu Sekyere1, Helen Essandoh1, David Dotse Wemegah2
1Regional water and Environmental Sanitation Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, PMB, UPO, KNUST, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.
Environmental health insights
|August 3, 2023
概括
加纳的地下水在加纳的地下水.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 水文地质学 水文地质学
背景情况:
- 地下水是自然和人类活动威胁的重要水源.
- 污染物监测对于评估人类健康风险至关重要.
- 非法小规模采矿对地下水质量构成重大威胁.
研究的目的:
- 评估加纳手工挖井中的重金属含量 (Fe,Cd,Mn,Hg).
- 评估与地下水污染相关的潜在健康风险.
- 用水质指数 (WQI) 确定地下水适合人类饮用.
主要方法:
- 对Fe,Cd,Mn,Hg和其他水质参数 (pH,酸盐等) 的分析. ) 的情况.
- 危险系数 (HQ) 和健康危险指数 (HHI) 的计算.
- 癌症风险 (CR) 和水质指数 (WQI) 的确定.
主要成果:
- 铁,和的含量没有致癌的健康风险.
- 暴露于 (Cd) 呈现出致癌的健康风险 (CR > 10^-6).
- 阿希亚耶姆,阿佩博阿索和卡瓦克瓦索的水井安全 (WQI 15-50);奥杜马西宗戈的水井受到严重污染 (WQI 80-320).
结论:
- 由于高污染,Odumasi Zongo的地下水对消费不安全.
- 地下水中的污染在研究区域具有显著的癌症风险.
- 需要有针对性的干预措施来缓解矿业活动造成的地下水污染.
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