Assessment of water quality of some table water companies in Kano metropolis, Nigeria
Journal Title: Scholars Academic Journal of Biosciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper examines the source, production process and water quality of some table water producing companies in metropolitan Kano. Samples were taken from each of the pure water production plants (3 each) from the six (6) local government areas of Kano metropolitan namely; Dala, Fagge, Gwale, Kano Municipal, Nassarawa and Tarauni, according to the methods of FAO. Three samples were collected from each of the sample site – source and at the end user point. The result of the microbiological analysis showed that all the samples had high aerobic mesophilic bacterial counts at the source. While, some samples had lower counts at the production sites than at the selling points, Results of the conform analysis clearly indicated the presence of high coliform counts in some of the water samples from source and of course at the selling points. The paper concludes that some companies do not comply with some of the FAO and NAFDAC standards. Based on the findings of this study recommendations were drawn. Keywords: Table Water, Production, Coliform, Kano.
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Abubakar A, Babagana M, Gashua MM
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