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AUTHOR(S): Kossonou Yao Kamelé, Adingra Kouassi Martial-didier, Koffi Yao Mesmin, Kossonou Yao Kouman Eric, Tano Kablan
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TITLE Water Consumption Survey Used in the Largest City in Western of Côte d’Ivoire : Daloa |
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ABSTRACT This study aims to collect information on the types of water consumed in Daloa in order to understand behavior of populations of this city with respect to the different types of water consumed in this locality of Côte d'Ivoire. Thus, it called for a survey in eleven districts of Daloa. The results identified four types of water commonly used in Daloa. This is water from natural springs, wells, fountains and that distributed by the Water Distribution Company of Côte d’Ivoire called in french ̏ Société de Distribution d’Eau de Côte d’Ivoire ̋ (SODECI). Spring water is most popular with the populations surveyed with a percentage of 78%, unlike the water distributed by SODECI (2%). Also, well water (8%) is better appreciated by the people surveyed than water distributed by SODECI (2%) because it is qualified by the latter as unsuitable for consumption as drinking water. Well water and that distributed by SODECI are widely used for laundry, personal hygiene and cooking with respective values of 35.45%, 34.55% and 35.45% for well water and 61 .82%, 58.18% and 50.91% for SODECI water. According to them, the consumption of water distributed by SODECI could be unhealthy for human consumption as drinking water without prior treatment because of the visible cloudiness of this water. A physico-chemical study followed by a microbiological analysis could better provide an answer to this concern and would at the same time make it possible to remove the fears related to the consumption of water distributed by SODECI-Daloa as human drinking water. |
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KEYWORDS Water type, Water quality, SODECI-Daloa, Daloa (Côte d’Ivoire) |
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Cite this paper Kossonou Yao Kamelé, Adingra Kouassi Martial-didier, Koffi Yao Mesmin, Kossonou Yao Kouman Eric, Tano Kablan. (2022) Water Consumption Survey Used in the Largest City in Western of Côte d'Ivoire : Daloa. International Journal of Agricultural Science, 7, 19-25 |
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