Summary
This report is reporting a summary of the analysis of literature and data availability on the Senegal River basin. This Report is currently based on literature review and open access data and it will be updated as the local data to be collected by project partners will be made available (February 2019).
The elaborated chapters provides an analysis of the key issues in terms of environmental quality (with special emphasis on water quality) in the SRB. It shall serve to set priorities for the research and training aspects as well as related mitigation concepts concerned within the Water Energy Agriculture Nexus of the WEFE Senegal project
The analysis is done using:
- Country based health statistics released by the World Health Organization (WHO), with special emphasis on environmental health stressors as a starting point
- Country based trade statistics to identify sectors, with presumably impact water quality
- Other databases on industrial activities
- Scientific literature (and data provided by OMVS) about water quality in the SRB in comparison to existing environmental quality standards (EQS).
- Free Open Access Data
This report has to be considered as an ongoing working document as it will be updated and populated when local data will be available (local data to be delivered by first months of 2019).