Public health effects due to insufficient groundwater quality monitoring in Igando and Agbowo regions in Nigeria: A review

Abioye, Samson Oluwafemi; Perera, Duminda

doi:10.1007/s40899-019-00330-5

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“…Polluted streams, groundwater/shallow wells and springs contaminated by micropollutants and pathogenic organisms are the most common domestic and drinking water sources for suburban and rural people (Kapembo et al 2016 , 2019 ; Nienie et al 2017 ; Abanyie et al 2020 ). Several causes can justify the pollution of these water resources, including the vulnerability of water points (lack of well water tightness), unsanitary conditions, contamination from septic tanks and latrines, the presence of uncontrolled landfills, wastewater runoff and open defecation (Banks et al 2002 ; Longo 2009 ; Kapembo et al 2016 , 2019 ; Graham and Polizotto 2013 ; Abioye and Perera 2019 ; Owamah 2020 ). For this reason, it is necessary to examine the pollution status of the water used for human consumption.…”

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Survey of water supply and assessment of groundwater quality in the suburban communes of Selembao and Kimbanseke, Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kapembo

Mukeba

Sivalingam

et al. 2021

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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In many suburban municipalities of developing countries, the household drinking water comes mainly from groundwater including, wells, streams and springs. These sources are vulnerable because poor hygienic conditions and sanitation prevail causing persistence and recurrent waterborne diseases. In this research, a survey study on water resource use and an epidemiological survey of waterborne diseases were conducted among users of water points and medical institutions in suburban communes of Selembao and Kimbanseke (Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo). In addition, physicochemical (temperature, pH, O2, electrical conductivity, and soluble ions: Na+, K+, PO43−, SO42−, NO3−, NO2−) and bacteriological (FIB: faecal indicator bacteria) analyses of water from 21 wells and springs were performed according to the seasonal variations. FIB included Escherichia coli (E. coli), Enterococcus and Total Coliforms. The survey results indicate that more than 75% of the patients admitted to local medical institutions between 2016 and 2019 are affected by waterborne diseases, including typhoid fever, amoebic dysentery, diarrhoea, gastroenteritis disorders and cholera. Except for NO3− in some sites, the water physicochemical parameter values are within WHO permissible limits for drinking/domestic water quality. On the contrary, the results revealed high FIB levels in water from unmanaged wells and springs during rainy and dry seasons. The microbiological pollution was significantly higher in the rainy season compared to the dry season. Interestingly, no FIB contamination was observed in water samples from managed/developed wells. The results from this study will guide local government decisions on improving water quality to prevent recurrent waterborne diseases.

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Survey of water supply and assessment of groundwater quality in the suburban communes of Selembao and Kimbanseke, Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kapembo

Mukeba

Sivalingam

et al. 2021

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“…Nigeria, one of the most densely populated (currently at 220, 291, 275) countries in the global south (Popogbe and Adeosun, 2022), portrays the characteristics of many of the major problems to solve in the LMIC. The characteristics include high population growth rate (2.4%) -a key driver of declining water availability per capita, economic fragility and poor management of water resources an important factor in water quality deterioration (Abioye and Perera, 2019). Others are lack of funding for infrastructure development (with the consequent poor improvement of basic human needs throughout the country including access to safely managed WASH facilities), vulnerability to water-climate-induced disasters, and weak institutional capacity to deal with these challenges.…”

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Water quality, WASH, and gender: differential impacts on health and well-being in Abeokuta City, Nigeria

Oluwasanya,

Omoniyi,

Perera

et al. 2023

Environ Monit Assess

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It is often assumed that humans experience the effect of poor water quality like multiple health and socioeconomic impacts in the same way. But these impacts are not gender-neutral due to inequalities caused by physiological composition, age marginalization, and socioeconomic conditions, among others.We analyzed the intersections between water quality and gender and applied a mixed-method approach in collecting local-speci c data and information. The assessment shows that without point-of-use water treatment, the water sources in the area are not safe for potable purposes, as the waters are hard in the sequence of borehole > surface water > hand-dug well > sachet water, with elevated levels of calcium (> 75mg/L) and not free from microbial contamination. Among the area population segments, men and boys (relative to women and girls) are more susceptible (55%) to the compounding health effects associated with the hardness and high calcium concentration in water. Girls are the most affected by the associated impacts of water collection. Men and boys are more vulnerable to the consequences of poor hygiene, while women are more susceptible to the health effects of toilet cleaning and sharing of sanitation facilities. Though most women and girls prefer disposable sanitary pads, women change more frequently and practice better menstrual hygiene than girls. We conclude that there are differential impacts of unsafe water, WASH services, and practices on human health. Gendered statistics through sex-disaggregated data is crucial to unmasking the differential impacts, which are neither gender-neutral nor evenly distributed between women and men, and boys and girls.

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Water Challenges in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

Nyika

Dinka

2023

SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology

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Public health effects due to insufficient groundwater quality monitoring in Igando and Agbowo regions in Nigeria: A review

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Survey of water supply and assessment of groundwater quality in the suburban communes of Selembao and Kimbanseke, Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Survey of water supply and assessment of groundwater quality in the suburban communes of Selembao and Kimbanseke, Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Water quality, WASH, and gender: differential impacts on health and well-being in Abeokuta City, Nigeria

Water Challenges in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

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