What is it about?
The impact of pollutant in drinking water source such as ogoni river. The heavy metal and PAH toxicity of this river could lead to health implications affecting human beings and other aquatic organisms including plants. The assessment of this river exposes it toxic nature and also it implications.
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Why is it important?
This article is important because it creates awareness of water toxicity to people residing in the area, and reasons why it should be cleaned up before consumption.
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The article shows the importance if environmental assessment and the level of degeneration that has occurred within our ecosystem. It is an alarm that something has to be done quick to ameliorate this degeneration in the environment.
Mr. Ugwu Tochukwu Nicholas
Federal University of Technology Owerri
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This page is a summary of: Heavy Metal Contamination Index, Metal Index and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content of Ochani River in Ogoni, Rivers State, Nigeria, International Journal of Biochemistry Research & Review, November 2022, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/ijbcrr/2022/v31i9780.
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