Bertha Abdu Danja
Federal University, Nigeria
Title: Analysis of Drinking Water Quality in Kashere, Gombe State Nigeria
Biography
Biography: Bertha Abdu Danja
Abstract
Quality of water is an important criterion for evaluating the suitability of water for drinking that is why this research is fused on the quality of different sources of drinking water in Kashere. Most people in this area do not have portable water as the source of their drinking water, so they make do with every type of water available.
The ground water samples were collected and subjected for a comprehensive physico – chemical analysis. The following parameters were tested, i.e. pH, Electrical Conductivity, Alkalinity, Total hardness, Total Dissolved Solids, phosphate, sulphate, chloride, nitrate, manganese, iron, nickel, arsenic, copper and flouride. On comparing the results against drinking water quality standards laid by World Health Organization and Nigerian Standard Organization, it was found that the water quality parameters were within the permissible limit, but some were not. The conclusion this project has reached, is that based on available laboratory equipments most parameters were within given limit but more detail research need to be carried out to test for more parameters than this work did, to ascertain the quality of these drinking water.