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Adoption of new mechanisms through which water supply and sanitation services may be provided to communities in Zambia has been undergoing continuous transformations over the last decade.Policy makers and other key stakeholders have been trying to find the most appropriate and self sustaining...

Kaluwe phosphate ore constitutes calcite(74.4 wt %)as the major mineral with minor amounts of apatite(5.9 wt %),opaques(13.5 wt%),which are predominantly iron minerals,quart/feldspar(5.7) and traces of biotite(o.5 wt %).The chemical composition of the ore averaged 2.2% p2o5,47.7% Cao,1.6%mgo,1.2%...

Pumps, of varying designs, have historically been vital in fluid flow. In Zambia, typical applications could be found in domestic water supplies and industrial applications. Complete pumping units have been designed and manufactured elsewhere. The manufacture of pumps in Zambia has generally...

The need to improve the socio-economic well being of the citizenry has placed huge challenges on the provision of better social infrastructure in developing countries like Zambia. To help with meeting the challenges, inputs from local communities have been incorporated in infrastructure...

There is growing concern in most developing countries regarding the use of technologies that are inappropriate to local conditions. In the area of treating surface water to drinking water quality, consideration of alternative treatment methods is receiving great attention particularly with regard...

The continuous quest for modernization and industrialization has brought a great challenge upon the third world countries such as Zambia in that these countries have to keep on importing production machinery whose spares cannot be obtained locally but from outside. This problem has been...

The Zambian Copperbelt is one of the great metallogenic provinces in the world and the production of copper and cobalt from sedimentary rocks, locally metamorphosed of the Lower Roan Group of the Supergroup in the Katanga Basin is the main business. It is well known fact that the Katanga Basin is...