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    Comparison Of Water Quality From Boreholes And Hand-Dug Wells Around And Within Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria
    (iosrjournals.org, 2025-05) Egbeyale Godwin B; Yussuff Quadri B; Ogunseye Titus T; Bello Adekunle K
    The increase in water consumption and health challenge in Malete as a result of increase in population of students and migrants cause an alarm. This study was carried out to compare the quality of selected machine drilled boreholes and hand dug wells for drinking. Samples were taken from six locations around and within Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria and tested for physicochemical and microbiological parameters using standard analytical methods. Range of values obtained for the various parameters for borehole samples are: Colour (9- 57.00 PCU), turbidity (0.00 FTU), conductivity (101.14-303.38 FTU), total dissolved solids (TDS) (148.57- 266.29 mg/L), total alkalinity (12.33-20.00 mg/L), Iron (0.01- 1.97 mg/L), Nitrate (2.89-8.11 mg/L), pH (3.86- 6.08 mg/L), hardness (17.1-68.4 mg/L), Manganese (0-0.13 mg/L), Coliform (0.12-0.22 cfu/mL) and Escherichia coli (0 cfu/mL). While values obtained for well samples are: Colour (35-177.57 PCU), turbidity (6.25-45.86 FTU), conductivity (139.57-300.78 FTU), TDS (525.50-801.11 mg/L), total alkalinity (116.03- 208.07 mg/L), Iron (0.04-0.21 mg/L), Nitrate (6.77- 12.01 mg/L), pH (4.76-5.95 mg/L), hardness (34.2-85.5 mg/L).. Borehole water had values for most parameters within the stipulated Nigerian standard for drinking water quality. However, pH values of borehole samples were very low, thus indicating that both borehole and well water require treatment before drinking.