Groundwater and soil samples were collected in Kaltungo LGA, Gombe State, in April 2012 to determine the quality of the groundwater (dry season). The purpose of this research was to look at various physicochemical parameters of drinking water samples collected from hand-dug wells and boreholes that had not been treated before use. The purpose was to establish the quality of water from various sources as a result of reported dental fluorosis. Intake of large amounts of fluoride during the early infancy years, when both the deciduous and permanent dentition are growing, has been linked to dental fluorosis. Ten soil and groundwater samples were gathered from four sampling sites, with two samples collected as a control from the Billiri LGA. On the samples obtained, the parameters nitrate, sulphate, phosphate, chloride, fluoride, electrical conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, temperature, turbidity, total hardness, and total alkalinity were determined using a standard procedure. The following variances in the examined parameters in samples were discovered by the data: Temperature: 24.5-27.3oC, pH: 5.47-7.50, electrical conductivity (EC): 700-20,000 s/cm, total hardness: 60.70-979.6 mg/L, alkalinity: 24.10-79.03 mg/L, turbidity: 0.06-95.40 NTU, phosphate: 0.05-0.80 mg/L, fluoride: 1.31-1.97 mg/L, nitrate: 19.40- The bulk of the examined indicators were found in excess of the World Health Organization's permissible thresholds for drinking water quality criteria in the Kaltungo samples. Analyses of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation were used to describe the findings.
Author(S) Details
Casimir E. Gimba
Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
George I. Ndukwe
Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
Elaoyi D. Paul
Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
James D. Habila
Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
Lamis A. Madaki
Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
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