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Original Articles

Water hygiene of swimming pools in mosul city, Iraq

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Pages 1021-1031 | Received 10 Oct 1991, Accepted 21 Nov 1991, Published online: 15 Dec 2008
 

Abstract

One hundred water samples were collected from five swimming pools at 1989 summers mounths for bacteriological examination.

Membrane filtration and MPN procedures were used in this work, a high percentage of the samples were polluted with certain indicater bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus. Streptococcus faecalis and Pseudononas aerusinosa.

Swimming pool No. l showing the lowest count of total coliforas. Escherichia coli. Streptococcus faecalis. Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudononas aeruninosa. while the swimming pool No.4 showing the highest count (except Pseudononas aeruninosa 1 of the above nicroorganisms.

The levels of free chlorine (0.0–0.36 mg/1) seems to be failure to remove E. coli or other coliforms which were more sensetive to chlorine.

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