According to the World Bank, Zambia generates approximately 0.9 kg of solid waste per person per day. The strategies in place for Municipal solid waste (MSW) management include a combination of three techniques: recycling, combustion, and landfill disposal. In Lusaka, at least 22.5 % of the waste...
Download PDF ↓Zambia adopted Community Led Total Sanitation approach with the aim of ending open defecation and to reduce sanitation related diseases in the rural parts of the country. About 74.2 percent of households in rural areas have no pit-latrines as a result most of them either use the surrounding bush...
Download PDF ↓Backfill is described as waste material that is used to refill the underground voids left during mining for technical or safety purposes. Backfilling has several applications underground and the use of backfill has increasingly become a fundamental part in the entire underground mining activities...
Download PDF ↓One of the factors impeding access to safe water is water pollution. Of particular concern is heavy metal contamination of water bodies. This study was aimed at determining the levels of heavy metals in drinking water sources of Chingola District of Zambia and their potential human health risks...
Download PDF ↓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...
Download PDF ↓Given a set, the Sikorski differential space structure is determined on it by a collection of real-valued functions, while the Frölicher (smooth) structure is defined by a pair of paths into along with real-valued functions which fulfil specified sets of axioms. According to A. Batubege and P....
Download PDF ↓The background to this study had its genesis from the fact that little was known about indigenous nurturant care-based knowledge, values as well as competences and practices that have enabled the Lozi people of western Zambia to co-exist with floods over centuries and how such knowledge, values,...
Download PDF ↓Environmental issues such as sedimentation have accelerated due to increase in population and changes in land uses. This has made water managers to face complex technical challenges in managing water bodies. To address such environmental issues, the Global Action Program (GAP) by UNESCO (2014)...
Download PDF ↓Quality in education is a concept that is of paramount importance. In studies of quality issues in education all over the world, it is pointed out that there is as yet no consensus on the definition of the term “quality”. Although it cannot easily be quantified in education terms, factors...
Download PDF ↓Mining is considered to be the world’s most valued anthropogenic activity. For instance, in Zambia, mining is one of the most important economic sectors and contributes significantly to its Gross Domestic Product.On the other hand, it is recognised as being responsible for heavy metal soil and...