Relation between Selected Water sources their location and Occurrence of Bacteria in Private House Hold water supply in district Nowshera KPK

Abstract

Water is life. This simple statement embodies the central role water plays to individuals, families, communities, nations and regions. The study was carried out for the bacteriological quality assessment of drinking water and identifies the problems related to water quality, impact of the microbiological quality of water from house hold sources (hand pumps) on public health indicators. The scope of work is limited to private water sources and their specific microbiological quality in three union councils of Nowshera including Tarrujabba, AmanKot and Akbar Purra. With a little variance in percentage of Other acute Diarrhea reported from the BHUs in these union councils it is concluded that Bacteriological contamination of the water sources has significant impact on the public health in these union councils, causing huge number of water born morbidities and posing continuous threat to develop in to potential water born disease alerts and outbreaks.