Sustainable groundwater resources in Africa : water supply and sanitation environment / editors, Yongxin Xu and Eberhard Braune.

Published jointly by UNESCO.

"A Balkema book."

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Best practice guidelines -- 1. Water supply and sanitation issues in Africa -- 2. Groundwater resources in Africa -- 3. Framework of best practices lor groundwater supply and sanitation provision -- 4. Best practice for groundwater quality protection -- 5. Summary and recommendations -- II. Case studies -- 6. Groundwater dynamics in the East African Rift System -- 7. Aquifer vulnerability and its implication for community water supply of Porto-Novo region (South-East of Benin) -- 8. Vulnerability of dolomite aquifers in South Africa -- 9. A low tech approach to evaluating vulnerability to pollution of basement aquifers in sub-Saharan aquifer -- 10. Preserving groundwater quality against microbiological contamination through differentiated aquifer management in Africa -- 11. Fluoride in African groundwater: Occurrence and mitigation -- 12. Practical methods to reduce iron in groundwater with a case study -- 13. Investigation of borehole failures - experience from Botswana -- 14. Cost-effective boreholes in sub-Saharan Africa -- 15. Water supply and sanitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- 16. Rural water supply and sanitation in Malawi: Groundwater context -- 17. Groundwater and sanitation in an arid region -- 18. Community-based groundwater quality monitoring: A field example -- 19. Charitable endowments as an institute for sustainable.