2025/07/21 by Mulatu Kassa
paper · doi:10.20372/nadre:10827
Water quality is a critical factor affecting humanhealth and welfare. Ethiopia is one of the countrieswith worst health status in the world water qualityproblems where only 52%of its population has accessto safe water. For this reason, 60-80% of thepopulation suffers from water-borne and water-relateddiseases. Shambu town is not out of this problem.Since people are still using unprotected wells andsprings for their domestic water supply. Therefore thisresearch was aimed to evaluate the bacteriological andphysico-chemical quality of water in Shambu Town.Two rounds of water samples were taken from eachsite with A total of 48 water samples. From watersources (n=4), from reservoir(n=1)from tap water(n=4) and from household containers (n=15) wereconsidered for physico-chemical and bacteriologicaldrinking water quality determination. A the Sampleswere analyzed for phisico chemical parameters likeTemperature, Turbidity, PH, TDS, EC and thepresence of indicator bacteria such as Totalcoliformes (TC) and fecal coli form (FC).The methodof sample collection at each sampling point wasaccording to the WHO Guidelines for drinking waterquality assessment. Water samples were collectedusing systematic random sampling method. The resultshowed that Highest counts of TC,and FC weredetected in the house hold water containers, followedby unprotected well, unprotected springs protectedwell and protected spring. All raw water samples werepositive for TTC and FC. High bacteriological loadwere found in the household water containers.<br> <em>(PDF) Bacteriological and physio chemical quality assessment of drinking water The case in shambu Town,Oromia Region, Ethiopia</em>. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333142630BacteriologicalandphysiochemicalqualityassessmentofdrinkingwaterThecaseinshambuTownOromiaRegionEthiopia [accessed Jul 21 2025].