The quality of water from protected springs in Katwe and Kisenyi parishes, Kampala city, Uganda

African Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-20

  Haruna, Rukia ^a   Ejobi, Francis ^a   Kabagambe, Edmond K ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; DRINKING WATER; NITRATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FECES MICROFLORA; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS; TURBIDITY; UGANDA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NITRATES; TEMPERATURE; UGANDA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33646024326     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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