STUDY OF PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS IN MAGADA STREAM WATER AND ITS HEALTH RISK IN CHILDREN OF MAGADA COMMUNITY

📄 Project Abstract

Stream water serves as a recreational site in many rural areas for children whether as a permanent or seasonal stream water. The seasonal stream water flows when there is significant high rainfall. Contributing to seasonal stream water is the storm water which consists mostly of rain water running over land scape and or drainage in semi-urban into the stream (Kerataet al., 2003). The storm water carries contaminants which could be non-point source pollution when the source of the pollution is from diverse form (Adeogunand Fafioye2011). Among the pollutants are the most significant which are toxic and the pathogenic organisms. These pollutants threaten the health of the people most especially the children when this pollutants run into streams. Contributing more to the problem is the influence of waste water from the urban where sewage system is open to the stream water in some cases or open to the drainage which later through flow of storm water finds its way into the stream water (Kera...