Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017

Fluoride in East Nile drinking water sources Khartoum State, Sudan

Khatir M. K. Ahmed, Mona A. Haroun, H. M. Al Solami

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 The study was conducted in 2014 in the Eastern Nile area, and aimed to assess fluoride in drinking water sources. In this study experimental method was used to determine concentration of fluoride in drinking water sources in dry and wet season. The sources of drinking water were 281 sources the beneficiaries of that about 868,147 population. The sample size was determined according to WHO recommendations. That minimum Numbers for piped drinking water according to the population served, Total number of samples for laboratory analysis are 97 samples spectrophotometer was used to test fluoride in water, and the results were analyzed by using. SPSS Version 20. The Fluoride in drinking water according to WHO guidelines and SSMO standard should not exceed than 1.5 mg/l where the results gave that 7 out of 97 sources exceed than the permissible level in the dry season and 8 out of 97 sources in the wet season. The study observed that all sources with excessive levels of fluoride in specific area. So that the study recommended that this area should be provided with water supply from Blue Nile, and these sources provided with aerators to remove fluoride. 

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Khatir M. K. Ahmed, Mona A. Haroun, H.M. Al-Solami, Fluoride in East Nile drinking water sources Khartoum State, Sudan, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-11 | November-2017

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