The private sector continues to play an important role in filling local drinking water supply
gaps across the Global South. In West Africa, a perfect storm of rapid population growth …

Risk assessment is a formal process of identifying hazards and assessing the risk
associated with them (risk is a combination of the severity of illness and the probability of …

Objectives About 18% of urban households in Nigeria depend on packaged sachet water as
the primary source of drinking water. This review assessed microbial contamination of these …

Diseases caused by contaminated water consumption and poor hygiene are among the
leading causes of death in children, the elderly and people with compromised immune …

Objective. To assess the bacteriological and physical quality of locally packaged drinking
water sold for public consumption. Methods. This was cross‐sectional study where a total of …

Emerging economies have often poor hygiene practices in traditional milk and dairy
production all over the world. Therefore, pathogenic bacteria in milk pose major public …

Virulent pathotypes of E. coli seriously affect the livestock regarding the misuse of antibiotics.
All 180 samples collected from cow's environment and dairy shops in Qena, Egypt were …

Good quality water is odourless, colourless, and free from faecal pollution, and a satisfactory
safe supply must be made available to consumers. The study assessed consumer …

Water bodies constitute a medium through which antibiotic-resistant organisms and
resistance genes are disseminated among the human and animal populations. In this …

Poor handling of potable water is a well-known route of contamination. Despite this,
Nigeria's most consumed packaged potable water called “sachet” or “pure water” is still …