Paper Review Assignment #4

Assessment of Groundwater Quality of Bama Town, Nigeria.

Groundwater Hydrology (CVE 696)


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AKINDUNNI, Olushola Daniel AKINDUNNI
05/30GB025
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Ilorin, Nigeria




CVE 696 Course Lecturer:Dr. OlayinkaOkeola




January 2014


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Paper Citation:
Yerima, F.A.K., Daura, M.M. and Gambo, B.A. (2008).Assessment of Groundwater Quality of
Bama Town, Nigeria. Journal of Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Environment
3(2):pp.128-137.
Paper Review:
Everybody knows that water is important to life, without it life cannot go on. It was noted that
human, plant and animal lives on the planet is dependent on water. Due to intimate
relationship between water and life, water can be said to be woven into fabric of all cultures
and religious societies in myriad ways. Water on the earth is to be said of enormous in quality
when it is considered that more two-thirds of the earth surface is covered by water. United
nation environmental protection (UNEP) and world health organization (WHO) argued that it is
not sufficient merely to have access to water in adequate quantities; the water also need to be
of adequate quality to maintain health and must be free from harmful biological and chemical
contamination.
The objective of this study is to assess the quality of groundwater from both wells and
boreholes in Bama town to determine the factors affecting the quality of the groundwater and
to make policy statements to government on groundwater quality.
The data needed for the groundwater quality analysis are primary and secondary data. Primary
data includes the result of laboratory analysis and field instrumentation that was carried on the
water samples to determine water quality parameters. The secondary data was collected from
the medical records of Bama general hospital. The procedure for sampling involves three basic
steps: physical, chemical and biological properties of water. The physical properties examined
are: pH and electrical conductivity, chemical properties conducted were: chloride, nitrate,
hardness, total dissolved solid, bicarbonate, magnesium, sodium and potassium. The biological
property tested was Escherichia-Coli.
The results obtained from the physical, chemical and biological analysis of the groundwater
revealed that there is pollution from both chemical and biological sources. The evidence was
noticed from high levels of nNitrate, mManganese and Escherichia-Coli in which the values
obtained are more than WHO 1996 water standards. Wells and boreholes are more polluted in
areas near farms and sanitation units.


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