Wastewater

Although there is increased global concern on sustainable environmental and human health management, the African countries are still unserious which should not be the case considering the potential consequences of harmful chemicals discharge into our environment from domestic and other anthropogenic activities. We are therefore reporting in this paper a spectroscopic assessment of heavy metals in wastewater generated from students’ halls of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria.

In most cities in Nigeria, Industrial and Domestic effluents are discharged indiscriminately into the environment. In city slums, the usual practice is for people to live side by side with the waste they produce (both liquid and soilid waste) thereby leaving them at the mercy of diseases. In highbrow areas of cities, wastes may be properly drained but channeled into streams, rivers and lakes with the resultant damage to aquatic flora and fauna. Industrial effluents are usually of channeled into water bodies and the cost in terms of fish kills is enormous.