Factors Pushing Key stakeholders in discharging pollutants to Nearby River: The Case of Akaki River, Addis Ababa
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2022-11-25
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Addis Ababa University
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Water is a vital natural resource that we use for drinking and other purposes in our daily lives. The socioeconomic features and exponential population growth, horizontal physical expansion, high levels of poverty, low quality housing, low level of access to water supply and sanitation services, irrigation land along the river side’s and inefficient facility and practice of industries in waste management have significant input to pollution of the river and because of this pushing factors key stakeholders discharge pollutant to Akaki river. However it is rare to find studies assess these pushing factors and because of this specific knowledge gap this study conducted to fill knowledge gap. The major objective of this study was to assess pushing factors for key stakeholders in discharging pollutants to Akai River. The study used secondary data from Water land research center on spatial and temporal variation data of physical and chemical parameters and Heavy Metals concentrations of the Akaki river water and the river water quality interpreted by drinking, domestic and irrigation water use quality standards of various guide lines. As well as to assessing behavior of key stakeholders and Akaki river bank characteristics the researcher select a representative sample from the target population those are households and industries settled along the Akaki river by purposive sampling method which was used to select Akaki kality, Lafto Nefasesel, Kolfea Keraniyo and Addis Ketema sub cities as sampling areas and tannery and textile industries and EPA, AAWSA and sampling areas sub city offices and by systematics sampling method 222 sampled respondents sizes selected out of 503 populations. Descriptive research design with mixed approach method was used. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model were used to identify factors that determine the pushing factors of key stakeholders in discharging pollutant to Akai River. The result showed that 63.5% of the household heads had poor practice and (36.5%) household heads had good practice in discharging pollutants to Akaki River. The resulting distribution further, Variables such as educational status, family size, accessibility and affordability to Waste management facility/service and WASH facility, toilet discharging service access and affordability, Knowledge and Poor Attitude of households and industries Economical capacity and behavior on Akaki river pollution are significantly affects the households and industries practice on discharging pollutant to Akaki river. Thus, the researcher recommended that in the process mitigate further river pollution; including near-term coordination and longer-term mitigation responses, these variables should be considered by the government decision makers, donor agencies at different level and individual household heads.
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Physiochemical, Heavy metals, spatial variation, temporal variation