![]() Water quality is becoming a major problem, as evidenced by frequent outbreaks of water borne diseases in both rural and urban areas of developing countries. The available fresh waters are being polluted by anthropogenic factors and are reducing the availability of potable water (Fard et al. The world’s six billion people are appropriating 54% of all the accessible freshwater contained in rivers, lakes and underground aquifers (WWAP 2012). Water use has been growing at more than the rate twice of population increase in the last century. Thus, detail risk assessment should be conducted from treatment to distribution including storage and safe handling of water at the point of use in order to provide complete intervention strategies in tackling waterborne diseases. The unsafe piped-water supply was attributed to both leakage and contamination in the distribution system or unsafe storage. ![]() The current study indicated that all water samples were bacteriologically contaminated and none of them met the WHO maximum permissible limit of drinking water quality. The turbidity was found in the safe water quality range (2.1–2.9 NTU). The level of microbial contamination increased from before entering the storage tank to after leaving the storage tank indicating that the presence of leakage in the distribution system and contamination at the storage tanks. ![]() The result of this study showed that the drinking water was microbially contaminated in all sampling points. ResultsĪll water samples collected from drinking water storage tanks were positive for total coliforms and faecal coliforms. ![]() ![]() Although communities living in urban areas of Ethiopia have access to piped water supply, cross-contamination in the distribution system and unsafe storage are the major source of water borne diseases hence they are mostly overlooked by water professionals. Water quality problems are one of the manifestations of poverty and most developing countries including Ethiopia suffering a lot of health problems associated with consumption of contaminated water. ![]()
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