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Neetima Batra ¹, Beenu Sehgal ¹, Manju Mehta ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Water quenches thrust next only to air water is essential for the life of plants, animals andhuman beings. Drinking water is an absolute necessity, its quality being as important as its availability. Consumption of unsafe drinking water contributes to the 4 million annual cases of diarrhoeal cases worldwide. This study aimed to determine the knowledge and practices of water purification and to assess the quality of drinking water at the point of use at Hisar city of Haryana state A total of 100 respondents from a corresponding number of households were selected through a multistage sampling method. Data was obtained with the use of well structured interviewer administered questionnaire. Water works water supply is the main source of water in the both localities selected, less than 50 percent of the respondents believed that hand pump water is good for drinking in sector 15-A locality where as old city housewives were preferring waterworks water for drinking (56.0%). Cent percent of the respondents were aware of boiling technique as a method of purification.60 to 70 percent respondents were aware about use of muslin cloth, potassium permanganate, alum and Bleaching powder as a source of purification in Old city where as percentage was little bit high in sector's people. In general 82.0% respondents were using water filters in their home in both the locality.

Keywords

Household Drinking Water, Purification Practices, Knowledge, Quality.

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Neetima Batra ¹, Beenu Sehgal ², Manju Mehta ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, GGSSS Kaimri, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Family Resource Management, I C College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene are some of the most basic needs for human health and survival. Specially pure drinking water is of utmost importance among sanitation and hygiene concepts, keeping in view the study is planned to take a overall view of drinking water availability in urban area and performance of various water filters available in market. Water samples fromMunicipal water works, Tubewells and Handpump were tested. Five types of filters i.e Membrane filter, Candle filter, UV-rays+candle filters, Chemical treatment filters and three steps filter were selected for bacteriological analysis of water. Contaminated unfiltered water samples were taken purposively for the testing.After filtration it was found that UV rays+candle filter(F1) and three Steps filter (F2) were best in terms of removing impurities in terms of coliform count, faecal coliform count and viable count present in all three sources of water. F3 filter (chemical filters) had removed all the impurities present in unfiltered handpump water and reduced the impurities approximately ten times from other two sources of filter i.e. water from waterworks and tubewell. F4 filter (candle filter) and F5 (membrane filter), ranked III and IV respectively because these filters were found to remove the above mentioned impurities to some extent. It was also found from the available results that F3, F4 and F 5 filters were proved to be much more effective when the bacterial counts were less in unfiltered water taken from the all three sources. Thus, it can be concluded that F1 and F2 filters are best out of five filters tested in terms of performance evaluation and are, therefore, recommended for use by the consumers.

Keywords

Filters, UV Rays+Candle Filter, Coliform, E.coli, Faecal Coliform, Membrane Filter.

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