Abstract
WATER QUALITY AND THE PREVALENCE OF MICROBIAL WATER-RELATED DISEASES IN YAURI TOWN AND ITS ENVIRONS, KEBBI STATE NIGERIA
Dr. Fada Abubakar Garba*, Bello Nura
ABSTRACT
Water quality and contacts pose serious threats to human health. This paper looks at the relationships between water quality and the prevalence of water related diseases in Yauri town and its environs, with the aim of identifying the types and causes of diseases in relation to gender and age. Disease data of between 2015 and 2018 were obtained from health facilities in Yauri town while water samples were collected from the River Niger, hand-dug wells and the public tap water supply. Water samples were analyzed for the Most Probable Number (MPN) of coliforms using using a statistical estimation method called Most-Probable-Number (MPN), expressed as MPN per 100 ml of water. A Spearman?s Correlation was carried out to show the relationships while the Independent t-test was carried out to show the significance of the prevalence. Results show that the most prevalent disease is malaria across gender with males having an edge over the females in 2017 and 2018. However, the independent t test failed to discover a significant difference (p = 0.93) in the prevalence of all diseases among the gender. The prevalence of malaria, typhoid and diarrhoea was also highest among children aged 15 years and below, although the Spearman?s correlation coefficient, showed an inversed relationship between diseases prevalence and age of patients (r= -0.289; p
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