As Windhoek urbanizes and industrializes, increased pollution threatens the water supply. Our project assisted the city’s Department of Infrastructure, Water & Technical Services by identifying limitations to compliance and determining strategies for improved enforcement of industrial effluent regulations. By gathering information via interviews with personnel from regulatory organizations and industrial operational managers, we found that effective industrial regulation is limited by inefficient communication between regulatory authorities and the inconsequential nature of regulatory enforcement. We developed recommendations for improved enforcement of regulations, improved industrial compliance, increased community involvement, and opportunities for future research.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Mazo-Nido, Javier Andres
• Howard, Grace Kathryn
• Monteith, Sarah Jean
• Dow, Timothy Curtis

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability
• Well-Being
• Industry
• Water

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050815-074423

关键词

• Industrial relations
• Water-supply--Health aspects

Advisor

• Robertson, Thomas B.
• Ault, Holly Keyes

Year

• 2015

Center

• Windhoek, Namibia Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• City of Windhoek, DIWTS

Date created

• 2015-05-08

地点

• Windhoek

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

最新修改

• 2020-10-28