Abstract
This study became imperative given the importance of water to our lives and particularly those in the rural areas, vis -‡-vis the exploitation for coal. Dry season surface water samples were analyzed for heavy metals and major ions. Correlation, factor and cluster analyses, anthropogenic factor (AF), heavy metal pollution (HPI) and metal indices (MI) were adopted to help in assessing the degree of water pollution. At P< 0.01and P<0.05levels, strong to moderate correlations exist. This indicates same origin for these variables. The R
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