Assessment of groundwater quality for Umbada, District,Omdurman, Sudan

Abstract

This study was dealing with assessment of groundwater quality and its fitness for agriculturaland domestic uses for Umbada district in western Omdurman, Sudan. The objectives of the study were to determine the groundwater quality through chemical and microbiological analyses for the samples taken from the studied boreholes in the area under investigation. Water samples for five groundwaterwells were collected in poly ethylene bottles and analyzed physically, chemically and bacteriologically, the analyses had been shown in tables illustrating some physical and chemical parameterssuch as pH, EC,TDS, NO3, HCO3, Na, Mg, Ca, Cl, F,SO4. The study showed that the groundwater is fit for irrigation and also domestic purposes according to Sudanese and WHO standards. The microbiological analyses had shown that samples (BH1, BH2, BH5) contaminated with total coliform and fecal coliform.