Faecal Bacteria Contaminations in Untreated Drinking Water (Groundwater Well and Hill Water) from Rural Community Areas
Most part of rural area has no treated water supply provided for their needs. The rural people has no choice and have to take from untreated water resource, such as well water, hill water, rain water, or gravity water, that we do not know how the drinkable status of it and whether it is safe an...
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaysia Sabah |
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| Summary: | Most part of rural area has no treated
water supply provided for their needs. The rural
people has no choice and have to take from untreated
water resource, such as well water, hill water, rain
water, or gravity water, that we do not know how the
drinkable status of it and whether it is safe and
healthy for them. Due to this, an assessment to analyse
the quality of the untreated drinking water quality on
faecal bacteria from rural community was conducted
for this study. Samples were taken from groundwater
wells and hill water sources to determine the
concentration of total coliform and faecal coliform
with permissible standards. Identification was done
through the Membrane Filtration Method from APHA
standard. The results showed that the highest
concentration of total coliform in hill water has
reached 159 cfu/100ml and faecal coliform reached up
to 66 cfu/100ml; and for the groundwater well source
shows contaminations of 205 cfu/100ml total coliform
and 120 cfu/100ml faecal coliform which have
exceeded the standard limits. This has showed that
total coliform and faecal coliform were presence in the
untreated drinking water of the rural people. The
research will answer the uncertainty about the
cleanliness and the content of untreated drinking
water resource from groundwater well and hill water
especially for the rural people that received water
source from uncertain water quality for their daily
consumption. |
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