TY - JOUR A1 - Amano, Kofi Owusu Ansah A1 - Danso‐Boateng, Eric A1 - Adom, Ebenezer A1 - Kwame Nkansah, Desmond A1 - Amoamah, Ernest Sintim A1 - Appiah‐Danquah, Emmanuel T1 - Effect of waste landfill site on surface and ground water drinking quality Y1 - 2020-11-30 JF - Water and Environment Journal DO - 10.1111/wej.12664 DO - 10.23689/fidgeo-4107 N2 - Drinking water quality of surface and underground water within 1.34 km from a waste landfill site in Kumasi, Ghana was investigated. Physico‐chemical properties and heavy metal concentrations were analysed to determine water quality and pollution indices. It was found that turbidity of 83% of hand dug wells, 50% of the streams and 33% of boreholes were higher than World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for drinking water. Water quality index (WQI) showed that 25% of the water sources are of excellent quality, while 50%, 15% and 5% are good quality, poor quality, very poor quality and unsuitable for drinking, respectively. Heavy metal pollution index (HPI) indicated that the water sources were above the critical limit for drinking water (HPI > 100). Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed 75.30% and 70.88% of the total variance for the physico‐chemical parameters and heavy metals, respectively. The findings concluded that cadmium concentrations in all the water sources were extremely higher (0.0122–0.1090 mg/L) than WHO limit (0.003 mg/L), rendering them unwholesome for consumption. UR - http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/8447 ER -