Determinants of Household Drinking Water Quality in Rural Ethiopia

Abstract

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Bacteriological quality of drinking water from source and point of use and associated factors among households in Eastern Ethiopia

“…The present study showed that 21.7% of water sources were contaminated with thermotolerant coliform. The proportion of contaminated water sources was much lower when compared with the result from Fogera and Mecha district of Northwest Ethiopia (73.7%) [8]. This may be due to the reason that all the sources included in this study were improved.…”

“…Different studies in Ethiopia show that the majority of water sources did not fulfill the World Health Organization's criteria for drinking water quality standards in which 20%to 87.5% of water sources were contaminated by fecal indicator bacteria [6][7][8][9]. On the other hand, 58-81% of households drinking water were bacteriologically contaminated [8,10].…”

“…Findings of different studies revealed that the bacteriological quality of drinking water is associated with place of residence, economic status, educational status, type of water sources, household water treatment, hygienic practice, and water storage and handling practice [8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

Hygienic Practice of Complementary Food Preparation and Associated Factors among Mothers with Children Aged from 6 to 24 Months in Rural Kebeles of Harari Region, Ethiopia

“…Pre-test and structure interviewer administered questionnaires were used during the data collection. Data on independent variables were collected by using structured pretested Afan Oromo and English version questionnaires (CSA, 2011;Usman et al, 2016). Three grades 10 completed students were recruited as data collectors and trained for two days.…”

Evaluating the efficacy of household filters used for the removal of bacterial contaminants from drinking water

“…Contamination of drinking water by waterborne pathogens in piped water distribution systems, at storage facilities and at point of use is the most serious human health risk, causing outbreaks of different diseases. In Ethiopia, 56% of the urban population had access to piped water through centralized water treatment and piped distribution networks but majority of the rural population used untreated water from surface water sources (Usman et al, 2016). But quality of drinking water gets poorer in water distribution systems due to leakage through corrosion of pipes, intrusion of microbial contaminants and other physicochemical pollutants that causes diarrheal and other diseases (Dawit, 2015;Adane et al, 2017).…”