Sanitary survey of drinking water sources in Shendi locality-river Nile state-Sudan

Abstract EN

This study was designed as community based observational analytical crosssectional study in the Shendi, which is one of the River Nile state localities, Sudan to assess the quality of drinking water, its associated health risk, impact and consequences to consumers.

The study involved all the population, and drinking water source in the towns and the villages.

Proportional stratified sampling allocation was followed to select the sample from the water source and the community.

Data were collected through;  In structural interview Sanitary and medical surveys  of the households and source of drinking water.

 Microbiological(based on the membrane filtration test)and chemical analysis of drinking water A selected number of physicochemical parameters were measured in order to establish whether or not the problem of chemical contaminations exists for water sources.

(SPSS) version 11.5 was used for data analysis.The most importance results were:  Shallow wells are still used beside the other sources in some villages in Shendi.

All the selected shallow wells and one third of the drinking water sources were contaminated, and were not conforming to the criteria and quality standards of safe and wholesome water as defined by WHO or the Sudan (SSMO).

 Based on the results and conclusion of this study, some recommendation emerged to mitigate the problems related to drinking water .