Hand-pumps as reservoirs for microbial contamination of well water
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Hand-pumps as reservoirs for microbial contamination of well water.
The retention and release of total coliforms and Escherichia coli was investigated in hand-pumps removed from tubewells tapping a faecally contaminated aquifer in Matlab, Bangladesh, and from a new hand-pump deliberately spiked with E. coli. All hand-pumps were connected to reservoirs of sterile water and flushed. Faecal coliforms were observed in the discharge from all three of the previously ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Water and Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1477-8920,1996-7829
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2011.106