COMMONWEALTH AFRICA JOURNAL (a publication of HALLMARK MEDIA)

The research work carried out by Dr. Ekwunife Chinyelu Angela and Okafor Fabian Chukwuemeka - both of the Department of Biology, Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria assisted me a lot in developing this report. Their research revealed how contagious and infectious the great and revered Agulu lake is and the health implications on Agulu people and her neighboring communities. Agulu has different water bodies. Two big major arms of Agulu Lake are in Agulu town, across which is a bridge and a wide tarred road. Agulu is a very large semi-urban town with twenty villages. There is pipe borne water, bore holes in some parts which are far away from the lake. Of the 20 villages in Agulu, 8 or more use the Agulu Lake as source of water for domestic purposes. Water from the lake is also sold to villages and towns farther from the lake by water tanker drivers. Other sources of water for domestic uses in Agulu are spring water and streams, namely Nemoku and Id...

Commonwealth Africa Journal is an international and interdisciplinary open-access journal covering all aspects of water, including water science, technology, management and governance. It publishes original research papers, critical reviews and communications. As an International Media organization, it also provides advocacy, capacity building and training in the area of Water & Sanitation, Environment, Agriculture, Cultural Tourism & Human Rights. We are devoted to the publication of papers dealing with the following: sustainable development of agricultural landscape: farm arrangement, wetlands protection, the role of forest and grassland; protection of water resources quality: non-point contamination from agriculture, villages and farms, methods of surface and ground water protection; irrigation and drainage: management, maintenance and operation, water use, water-crop relations, the influence of drainage and irrigation on environment; hydraulic structures for wat...