Highlights•This paper identifies interlinkages of water quality with SDGs based on evidence
from the literature.•Water quality plays different roles in SDG interlinkages—as driver, as …

Anthropogenic pollution plays an important part in deteriorating the water quality of rivers all
over the world, especially in urban areas of Africa where water quality monitoring is still …

The combination of rapid urbanization, industrialization, population growth, and low
environmental awareness poses a major threat to worldwide valuable freshwater resources …

The increase in human activities in urban areas resulting from the urbanisation process
continues to put immense pressure on urban ecological resources including water bodies …

The contemporaneous effect of natural and anthropogenic factors involved in a watershed
contribution to the seasonal and spatial variation of diatom community composition is widely …

The health of the river basin is characterised by its ecosystem health to provide significant
and valuable resources and services for human use and the basin itself. However, the …

Enyigba in south-eastern Nigeria is one of the agrarian communities facing water scarcity
challenges. The open cast mining activities in the region are also compounding the water …

abstract Due to rapid population growth and climate change all over the world, wastewater
treatment and reuse, coupled with their understanding of their characteristics, have been …

The assessment of the quality of carwash effluents has received scant attention as a
potential source of public and environmental health hazard in South Africa as demonstrated …

Water quality degradation of urban rivers has become a serious constraint to the sustainable
development of big cities in sub-Saharan Africa, and few systematic quantitative studies …