Author(s)

Eugène Longembe Basandja¹, Gaston Kimbwani Mabela², Zoé-Arthur Kazadi Mulumba^3,4, Jean Panda Lukongo Kitronza^1,5, Joris Losimba Likwela^1*

¹Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
²Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and education Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
³Department of Biotechnological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁴Station control room of Biodiversity (CSB), University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁵Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liege, Belgium.

Introduction: The present research paper aims at assessing the bacteriological water quality in households and at provisioning points, and so factors of water deterioration. Method: a transverse study has been conducted during the period starting from 11 up to 28 October 2018 within 6 Health Zones (HZ) in Tshopo Province integrated in National Program of Schools and Sanitized Villages (NPSSV). Water samples have been collected within 300 reserves of households and 30 water provisioning and analysed points in order to find out water contamination factors. The frequencies and raw OR have been estimated at (p < 0.05) valued significative. Results: fecal coliforms (80% CI95: 75% - 85%) and total (97% CI95: 95% - 99%) were significantly present in water reserves and the presence of Escherichia coli were at about 27% (IC95 22% - 32%). These proportions were correspondingly at 63%, 90% and 10% at water provisioning. The fecal coliforms were the highest in water reserves of sanitized villages (p < 0.05) and Escherichia coli were at about three times higher in traditional sources (17% vs 6%). The duration of water conservation was around 48 hours and more (OR = 4.41; IC95: 1.92 - 10.11), water classification of sanitized risk “intermedium” and the recipients of conservation with bottleneck were associated with the presence of E.coli in water (p < 0.05). Conclusion: water from provisioning sources and household reserves are severely polluted and water quality is not good at consumption point and at provisioning point. The reinforcement of safety measures at water points, reduction of conservation length and hygienic water cleaning of storage water recipients are necessary to assure quality of water.

Water Quality, Households, Supplied Points, Sanitized Village, Tshopo, Democratic Republic of Congo

Basandja, E. , Mabela, G. , Mulumba, Z. , Kitronza, J. and Likwela, J. (2021) Quality of Water Adjusted Sources and Storage in the Households of the Sanitized Villages in Area of National Program of Sanitized Schools and Villages at Tshopo Province in Republic Democratic of Congo. Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 9, 43-54. doi: 10.4236/jbm.2021.96004.