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dc.contributor.advisorXu, Yongxin
dc.contributor.authorRajkumar, Yasmin
dc.contributor.otherDept. of Earth Science
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Science
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-03T10:03:39Z
dc.date.available2010/06/28 22:22
dc.date.available2010/06/28
dc.date.available2014-02-03T10:03:39Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/2692
dc.descriptionMagister Scientiae - MScen_US
dc.description.abstractThe time bound agenda of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) aims at reducing poverty, extending gender equality and advancing opportunities for health and education by addressing current and future water resource and sanitation needs. In many rural areas of South Africa, the cost implication of routing surface water supplies and providing water borne sewerage may far exceed the budgets of local water service authorities. This has resulted in a major thrust in service provision via localised sources, mainly boreholes and springs as well as on site sanitation options. Whilst the National Water Act (Act 36 of 1998) mandates the South African government to provide potable water to all citizens in an equitable manner, this needs to be balanced against the preservation of the country’s water resources both quantitatively and qualitatively to ensure sustainability. It is imperative that this fine balance between protection and effecting societal demands and economic development through large-scale water provision be maintained, as successful strategising will be resultant of integrated social, economic and environmental issues especially in economically developing countries. In order to fulfil the mandate of the NWA, policies and strategies for effective protection and use of groundwater resources have been drawn up and are in the process of being drawn up by the national Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF). The major scope of research in this thesis stems from feasibility studies commissioned by the DWAF for the implementation of a groundwater protection zoning policy for the management and protection of groundwater resource quality. The research work focuses on specifically the microbiological zone of protection and attempts to determine the fate of various pathogens that emanate from on site sanitation facilities as they move through the subsurface. The research was predominantly proposed as a desktop collation and analysis of existing published data however; it was later decided to include a local case study site.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectPathogensen_US
dc.subjectVirusesen_US
dc.subjectBacteriaen_US
dc.subjectFaecal and total coliformsen_US
dc.subjectGroundwater qualityen_US
dc.subjectGroundwater protection zonesen_US
dc.subjectMicrobial subsurface transporten_US
dc.subjectAttenuation ratesen_US
dc.subjectIndicator pathogensen_US
dc.subjectPhelendabaen_US
dc.subjectKwa-Zulu Natalen_US
dc.titleThe fate of microbial contaminants in the subsurface with a South African case studyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa


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