Current Research on Bacteriological Quality of Drinking Water of the Jahangirnagar University Campus, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract

Microbiological quality of drinking water of Jahangirnagar University was studied. In the disease prone, humid, tropical region of Bangladesh, outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, often in an epidemic scale, are not unusual. Samples were collected from water tap of different academic buildings, Student dormitories, small food shops that developed in the campus, etc. The HPC (Heterotrophic Plate Count) ranged from 486 to 665 cfu/ml, from 298 to 1520 cfu/ml, and from 372 to 1002 cfu/ml for the water samples collected from the sampling sites respectively. None of the samples were found compliant with microbiological standards as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in terms of total coliform counts (TCC). The ranges of TCC were 2-0.52x10 2 cfu/100ml, 2-8.94x10 2 cfu/100ml, and 5-2.56x10 2 cfu/100ml in case of academic buildings, student dormitories, and food shops respectively. The average TCC and Fecal Coliform Count (FCC) were worst in the case of food shops and the better case was for academic buildings.