MICROBIAL AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF GROUNDWATER RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION IN ALFATH URBAN, ASSUIT, EGYPT | ||
| Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science | ||
| Article 4, Volume 2014, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 31-41 PDF (853.33 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/absb.2014.23791 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mustafa A. Ramadan* ; Usama M. Abdol-Raouf; Elsayed Khalaf Bakhiet | ||
| Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, AL-Azhar University, Assuit, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Sewage is the primary source of faecal contamination of groundwater with pathogenic bacteria. Protecting groundwater from microbial contamination is a top public health priority, This study deals with evaluation of groundwater wells, ground water well based-plants, in Alfath lying in Eastern area of Nile Basin, Assuit at summer 2014 with assessment of presence of thermotolerant faecal coliform and thermotolerant faecal streptococci bacteria as a potent indicators for faecal contamination, we used a multiple-tube fermentation or membrane filtration for enumerating themotolerant faecal coliform and thermotolerant faecal streptococci using most-probable-number (MPN) index. This study consisted of a total of 75 water samples obtained for routine testing at summer 2014, there are 5 water wells not suitable consuming as drinking water for human, 3 expulsion of water well plants (Alfath-Alkadema, Bani-Talib and Arab-Moteer) need to sterilization or replacement and renovation. Physicochemical parameters were determined for these water samples. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Groundwater; Themotolerant faecal Coliform; Thermotolerant faecal streptococci; Physicochemical parameters | ||
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