Efficiency of Household Water Filters on Bacteriological Quality of Drinking Water in Chandigarh

Abstract

Water is one of man's most valuable assets and at times his ingenuity has been taxed to the utmost to provide its clean and safe supply. In tropical countries like India where water is abundantly consumed to beat the heat, it sometimes endangers human health due to its contaminated nature. Of the inter-relationship between members of human population that facilitate the transmission of infection, those arising as a consequence of water supplies and group disposal of sewage are amongst the most important.