Meet the editor

Daniel Dunea is a professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering, Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania. He received his Habilitation degree and Ph.D. from the University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania. He completed a Marie Curie Fellowship at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands. In 2020, he was appointed a member of the prestigious National Council for

Attestation of University Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates – Romanian Ministry of Education. He has published several books and more than fifty scientific articles indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). He has also reviewed manuscripts for more than thirty-five WoS journals. His main research interests are environmental monitoring and assessment and associated aspects.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Daniel Dunea*

*by Shadrack M. Kithiia*

Terengganu, Malaysia

Metropolis, Nigeria

*by Thomas D. Shahady*

*and Sampson Kwaku Agodzo*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Monitoring and Assessment of Water Quality **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 59**

Factors of Water Quality Degradation **87**

**Chapter 5 89**

**Chapter 6 111**

Water Quality and Anthropogenic Pressures in a Changing

A Critical Analysis of the Water Quality Impacts on Water

Seasonal Variability of Groundwater Quality in Kapas Island,

Analysis of Ground Water from Selected Sources in Jalingo

Degradation and Improvement of Urban River Water Quality

Quality in Ghana: The Case of Ahafo-Ano South District *by Maxwell Anim-Gyampo, Belinda Seyram Berdie, Enoch Bessah* 

Effects of Illegal Artisanal Gold Mining Operations on Groundwater

*by Benjamin Ezekeil Bwadi, Mohammed Bakoji Yusuf, Ibrahim Abdullahi, Clement Yakubu Giwa and Grace Audu*

*by Mohmadisa Hashim, Arijatul Wardah Ahmad, Zahid Mat Said, Nasir Nayan, Hanifah Mahat, Yazid Saleh and Koh Liew See*

Environment: The Arges River Basin, Romania

Resources in the Athi River Drainage Basin, Kenya
