Influence of land use changes on groundwater quality – Bafoussam, West Cameroon

Abstract The purpose of this work was to show that the change in land use impacts quality free groundwater and therefore health population city Bafoussam. Land dominated by housing (about 42%) followed agricultural areas (33%) green space. socio-economic diagnosis guided survey showed 62.5% consumes CAMWATER water with malaria as dominant water-related disease. collection samples analysed colorimetric photometric assay has allowed us obtain a facies chloride sulphate–calcium–magnesium type. mapping potentially vulnerable pollution ArcGIS 10.8 software presents low-lying areas, downstream sites, close industries neighbourhoods strong urban disorder most retained actors diffuse Thus, increase agglomeration degrade city.