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Variability in space effects of industrial wastewater on river physicochemical characteristics in a sample of towns of Oromia

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Discharging industrial waste into water bodies without any treatment is the main source of water pollution. The purpose of this study is to analyze the amount of physicochemical of industry effluents or wastes emitted in streams and rivers in towns of Oromia Special Zones Surrounding Finfinne. Sampling and preserving wastewater was based on American Public Health Association (APHA, Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater, American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C, 1999). A composite sampling method was employed to collect industry wastewater sample and there by determine the concentration of pH, electric conductivity, chemical oxygen demand Total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and water temperature using ultraviolent atomic spectrophotometer, pH meter, and conductivity meter. The results revealed values of all sampling points were significantly different. The sampling points of Sululta of site 2 and site 5, Gelan of site2 and site 5 and Burayu of site4 were not within the pH ranges of United states Environment Protection Agency (United States environmental protection agency, USEPA (2009). National primary drinking water regulation) depicting the water not safe drinking and irrigation purposes. The low mean pH value at Sabata sampling site of3. The results of nutrient showed all study sites and sampling points seriously polluted by Total nitrogen and Total Phosphorus. Therefore, the industrial effluents were affected water quality, human, aquatic health, environmental pollution and thereby need mitigation measures of sustainable monitoring and supervision of untreated release of industry waste into the environment, phytoremediation of affected streams and rivers, awareness creation for community and advising firm owners to install industry waste treatment plants.

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  1. Urban and Regional Planning Program, Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction, and City Development, Addis Ababa University (AAU), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    M. Jagemma

  2. Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University (AAU), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    H. Worku

  3. Addis Ababa City Land Development and Administration Bureau, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    F. T. Gemeda & B. S. Gemeda

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Jagemma, M., Worku, H., Gemeda, F.T. et al. Variability in space effects of industrial wastewater on river physicochemical characteristics in a sample of towns of Oromia. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20, 13299–13306 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-023-04874-0

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