Assessment of drinking water quality of Mtopwa village in Bangwe Township, Blantyre

Desalination

Volumn 248, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 557-561

  Mkandawire, T ^a   Banda, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b Structural Solutions   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Coliforms; Drinking water; Open hand dug wells; Quality

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; COLIFORMS; DRINKING WATER; DRINKING WATER QUALITY; DUG WELL; OPEN HAND-DUG WELLS; QUALITY; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; WATER DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WELL WATER;

DISSOLUTION; STANDARDIZATION; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER WELLS; WELLS;

POTABLE WATER;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; WELL WATER;

AFRICA; BLANTYRE; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70349515162     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.05.101     Document Type: Article

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