Assessing the impact of household waste disposal practices on water quality of Womba River. A case study from Sawla Town, Ethiopia : Grin Verlag : 9783346274328 : 3346274322 : 24 Nov 2020 : Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Arba Minch University, language: English, abstract: The general objective of the study was assessing the impacts of household's poor waste disposal problem on the water quality of Womba River in Sawla town. A waste refers to any material or product that has been considered useless by the owner and needs to be discarded or has been discarded. Solid waste is any organic or inorganic materials generated from various human activities which have been considered unwanted or useless therefore disposed treated or untreated. On the other hand, the term household's solid waste management has been defined differently by different writers and Authors. For instance, defined it as all activities that seek to minimize the environmental, aest