Authors :
Mawahib Mohammed Salih Ibrahim; Ahmed Sayed Ahmed ElSayed
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 1 - January
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6258945
Abstract :
Water is one of the important requirements for
human health and life. However, it is also the most
effective carrier of pathogens causing a number of
infectious diseases. Water borne diseases are the most
common prevalent infectious diseases in developing
countries especially in rural areas, and is still a major
public health and environmental concern. The living
conditions in rural areas are poor, which makes rural
populations more vulnerable to inaccessibility to safe
drinking water and high risk of water borne diseases.
Water safety in a community depends on a range of
factors, from the quality of source water to storage and
handling in the domestic setting.
This is a descriptive cross sectional community based
study conducted in East Nile locality in the capital state of
Khartoum in Sudan among 384 households from April to
June 2019, to assess water handling practices on a
household level and the factors associated with the
prevalence of water borne diseases. A questionnaire was
used to collect data and the data was analysed by using
Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS).
The result revealed that artesian wells were the
commonest source of drinking water used by 81% of
participants. The majority of the respondents (80.2%)
didn’t treat their water at household level and only 3%
used boiling. 2.9% of the respondents washed their hands
before collecting water, 3.4% of the respondents cleaned
their water container regularly and 91.7% covered their
water collection container. The prevalence of water borne
diseases was 79% and diarrhoeal disease were the most
prevalent water borne diseases among households in all
the selected villages accounting for 52.1% of the total
followed by typhoid fever at 38%. The study concluded
that the practice of hygienic water handling practices
among participants was poor. Source of drinking water,
socioeconomic status as well as the adoption of measures
to treat water were the major factors responsible for the
occurrence of waterborne/diarrheal disease.
Keywords :
Water Borne Diseases, Drinking Water, Diarrhoea, Water Handling Practices.
Water is one of the important requirements for
human health and life. However, it is also the most
effective carrier of pathogens causing a number of
infectious diseases. Water borne diseases are the most
common prevalent infectious diseases in developing
countries especially in rural areas, and is still a major
public health and environmental concern. The living
conditions in rural areas are poor, which makes rural
populations more vulnerable to inaccessibility to safe
drinking water and high risk of water borne diseases.
Water safety in a community depends on a range of
factors, from the quality of source water to storage and
handling in the domestic setting.
This is a descriptive cross sectional community based
study conducted in East Nile locality in the capital state of
Khartoum in Sudan among 384 households from April to
June 2019, to assess water handling practices on a
household level and the factors associated with the
prevalence of water borne diseases. A questionnaire was
used to collect data and the data was analysed by using
Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS).
The result revealed that artesian wells were the
commonest source of drinking water used by 81% of
participants. The majority of the respondents (80.2%)
didn’t treat their water at household level and only 3%
used boiling. 2.9% of the respondents washed their hands
before collecting water, 3.4% of the respondents cleaned
their water container regularly and 91.7% covered their
water collection container. The prevalence of water borne
diseases was 79% and diarrhoeal disease were the most
prevalent water borne diseases among households in all
the selected villages accounting for 52.1% of the total
followed by typhoid fever at 38%. The study concluded
that the practice of hygienic water handling practices
among participants was poor. Source of drinking water,
socioeconomic status as well as the adoption of measures
to treat water were the major factors responsible for the
occurrence of waterborne/diarrheal disease.
Keywords :
Water Borne Diseases, Drinking Water, Diarrhoea, Water Handling Practices.