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Water is life, essential for human existence, and its importance for individual health as well as the well-being of a nation and access to good quality water cannot be overemphasized. It is therefore believed that a borehole is a hydraulic structure which when properly designed and constructed,...

In Zambia, copper mining has largely overshadowed the exploitation of other potential minerals. Recent developments have shown that, gemstone mining, namely emeralds and amethysts have begun to assume a significant role. In the past two decades, Zambia has become one of the major gemstone...

Konkola Mine is one of the wettest mines in the world. It pumps about 350,000m3 of water per day. From the inception of mining operations in 1956, water has always posed a challenge to mining despite the use of dewatering strategy involving dewatering crosscuts and dewatering boreholes. The...

As the population of Zambia is growing bigger, so does the demand for energy. Currently, Zambia is dependent on ZESCO as the main producer of electricity for the Zambian people. Despite the government liberalising the energy sector in 1997, very few private players have come on board. ZESCO has...

This dissertation looks at the impact of outsourcing on the quality of service of a cellular mobile network service provider. Outsourcing is when any operation or process that could be or would usually be performed in-house by an organisation’s employees is sub-contracted to another organisation...

Konkola Copper Mines Plc (KCM) is undergoing full mechanization drive aimed at increasing levels of production from the current 2.4 million tonnes to 7.5 million tonnes per annum. The mechanization of the mines will provide a large potential for reduced costs and improved profits, while at the...

Blasting is the process of fracturing material through the detonation of industrial explosives placed into drilled holes suitably located to a free surface. Every blast hole containing a calculated amount of explosive charge undergoes impulsive loading when detonated and results in the dynamic...

This report aims to assess participatory communication towards a healthier water sewerage and sanitation system in Kanyama Compound. Kanyama Compound has for a long-time now recorded one of the highest cholera and diarrhoeal cases year after year, due to lack of proper water and sanitation...