- Title
- Impacts of waste management practices on water resources in Harare
- Creator
- Nhubu, T., Muzenda, E., Mbohwa, Charles, Patel, B.
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/400919
- Identifier
- uj:33483
- Identifier
- Citation: Nhubu, T. et al. 2019. Impacts of waste management practices on water resources in Harare.
- Description
- Abstract: Poor municipal solid waste (MSW) management practices impact negatively on freshwater availability in terms of both quality and quantity. A review on the MSW practices currently being practiced and their impacts on water resources management in Harare was car-ried out to give recommendations towards sustainable MSW management and reduce the pollu-tion of water bodies. There is urgent need for the development and implementation of a local level integrated MSW management plan tapping from the national plan that was pronounced in 2014. Such a plan should incorporate material and energy recovery with the best option combin-ing anaerobic digestion of biodegradable MSW and incineration of the non-biodegradable MSW fraction. Legislative reforms to enforce source separation, the prohibition of dumbing waste at dumpsites together with the landfilling of biodegradable waste need to be urgently institutional-ized.
- Language
- English
- Rights
- ©2019, authors
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