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Assessment of the load of microbial pollution in certain drinking well water samples collected from the various places of Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, India
Kasinatha Durai, R., Nambu Mahalakshmi, R. and Amanulla Hameed, S.V.S.
Year : 2017 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 270-275
Received on: 10/19/2017
Revised on: 11/07/2017
Accepted on: 11/09/2017
Published on: 11/21/2017
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Kasinatha Durai, R., Nambu Mahalakshmi, R. and Amanulla Hameed, S.V.S.( 2017).
Assessment of the load of microbial pollution in certain drinking well water samples collected from the various places of Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, India
. International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 2( 6), 270-275.
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Abstract
The drinking well water sources of Pattinamkathan, Mandapam Camp and Achunthanvayal area of Ramanathapuram District were collected to assess the microbial pollution. This investigation reveals that the drinking well water of Mandapam Camp is polluted with many clinically important pathogenic microbes such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus, Shigella, Klebsiella pneumonia and Enterococcus aerogenes. This well water is highly polluted with the residues of sewage water through percolation of drainage water into the ground water.
Keywords
Microbial pollution, Well water, Sewage residues, Percolation.
