Safe water supply is one of the important Millennium Goals. For development of market water supply services, the willingness of consumers to pay is essential. The consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for piped water supply using the contingent valuation (CV) method with different starting point bids was investigated for the Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. The results showed ...

Over the last 20 years, there has been increasing interest in the occurrence, fate, effects, and risk of pharmaceuticals in the natural environment. However, we still have only limited or no data on ecotoxicological risks of many of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) currently in use. This is partly due to the fact that the environmental assessment of an API is an ...

Drinking water quality in rural areas is impacted by industrial and agricultural runoff, water treatment infrastructure, and household economic conditions. This study explores the relationship between drinking water quality, water sources, and land cover types in northeastern Kazakhstan. The Water Quality Index (WQI) was calculated for each household and village using the ...

Drinking water quality in rural areas is impacted by industrial and agricultural runoff, water treatment infrastructure, and household economic conditions. This study explores the relationship between drinking water quality, water sources, and land cover types in northeastern Kazakhstan. The Water Quality Index (WQI) was calculated for each household and village using the ...

Pharmaceuticals are crucial for human health, but their release into the environment through various means can contaminate groundwater, surface waters, soil, and microorganisms. The contamination of water by pharmaceuticals in Kazakhstan is not well-studied. Understanding the influence of pharmaceutical ingredients on the ecosystem and public health is a key area of ...

Drinking water quality in rural areas is impacted by industrial and agricultural runoff, water treatment infrastructure, and household economic conditions. This study explores the relationship between drinking water quality, water sources, and land cover types in northeastern Kazakhstan. The Water Quality Index (WQI) was calculated for each household and village using the ...

The work assessed the bioecological characteristics of the rare species Juniperus sabina in Kazakhstan. The significance of the research is that it provides knowledge about the morphological and adaptive characteristics of juniper. The purpose of the research is to study the morphoanatomical features of the vegetative organs of Cossack juniper in the Karaganda and Ulytau ...

Drinking water quality in rural areas is impacted by industrial and agricultural runoff, water treatment infrastructure, and household economic conditions. This study explores the relationship between drinking water quality, water sources, and land cover types in northeastern Kazakhstan. The Water Quality Index (WQI) was calculated for each household and village using the ...

Pharmaceuticals are crucial for human health, but their release into the environment through various means can contaminate groundwater, surface waters, soil, and microorganisms. The contamination of water by pharmaceuticals in Kazakhstan is not well-studied. Understanding the influence of pharmaceutical ingredients on the ecosystem and public health is a key area of ...

Pharmaceuticals are crucial for human health, but their release into the environment through various means can contaminate groundwater, surface waters, soil, and microorganisms. The contamination of water by pharmaceuticals in Kazakhstan is not well-studied. Understanding the influence of pharmaceutical ingredients on the ecosystem and public health is a key area of ...