Microbial Pollution of Water in El-Salam Canal, Egypt

Abstract

Water pollution is a major global problem. It has been suggested that it is the leading worldwide cause of deaths and diseases. With this intent, the paper presented pollution aspects of El- Salam Canal. Out of large number of microbial parameters linked with human health, some significant contaminating indicators, namely, heterotrophic plate count (total viable plate count, CFU/ml), total coliform (MPN/100 ml), Fecal coliform (MPN/100 ml) and faecal streptococci (MPN/100 ml) were analyzed. Twenty Five samples were collected over a period of five seasons from spring, 2008 to spring, 2009. The results of the present study revealed that the heterotrophic plate count ranged from 5× 10 - 930× 10 CFU ml and from 9× 10 - 870× 10 66 1 6 6