About the Authors

Amani Abdallah Hepautwa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

hepautwaamani@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology, Musoma (Butiama-HQ), Mara, Tanzania

Askwar Hilonga

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Register Mrosso

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Tusekile Alfredy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Gabriel Mwalusambo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology, Musoma (Butiama-HQ), Mara, Tanzania

Fina Lesafi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Yusufu Abeid Chande Jande

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Materials and Energy Sciences and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Futures (WISE-Futures) African Centre of Excellence, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.