Water velocity as a control of aquatic snails in concrete canal systems for irrigation
Aquatic snails are the intermediate hosts of the disease schistosomiasis. Irrigation schemes have often provided a favourable habitat for these snails, but rapidly flowing water will carry them away. The research established 23 stations in irrigation canals and monitored snail numbers and water velo...
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Loughborough University
1993
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385377 |