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Inner Murchison Bay - water quality trends
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08 authored by Sarah TibatemwaLake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the
world, is situated in East Africa, boardered by the countries
of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. A large number of people
in these countries depend on the lake as a source of drinking
water. In Uganda, National Water and Sewerage Corporation
(NWSC) has four raw water intakes on the lake for the
urban centres of Kampala, Jinja, and Entebbe. Two of these
intakes (Gaba 1 & Gaba 11 for Kampala) are in the Inner
Murchison Bay (IMB). Using water quality data (mean
monthly values) for the period 1994 – 1998 this study
attempted to establish the trends of water quality in the
IMB. Core parameters of colour (apparent), electrical
conductivity (E.C), turbidity and faecal coliform content
were considered.
Since NWSC draws raw water from the lake for treatment,
water quality data for treated water for the same
period were considered with a view to establishing whether
change in quality of raw water would affect the resulting
quality of treated water. The findings were used to demonstrate
the ability of the current water treatment process to
produce water of acceptable drinking water standards.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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TIBATEMWA, S., 2002. Inner Murchison Bay - water quality trends. IN: Reed, B. (ed). Sustainable environmental sanitation and water services: Proceedings of the 28th WEDC International Conference, Kolkata (Calcutta), India, 18-22 November 2002, 3p.p.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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WEDC_ID:10768Language
- en
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