Water microbial quality of lima’s beaches and its relation with the pollution causes
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https://doi.org/10.15381/iigeo.v14i27.768Keywords:
sea water, pollution, microorganisms, LimaAbstract
acceptable, then detect the pollution source. It was performed a microbiologicalanalysis of the water of 21 Lima’s beaches and the detections of contamination sources with human feces. The results qualify the water of 33.33% (07) beaches as unacceptable if it is used as indicators of fecal pollution, the total coliforms and fecal coliforms; if it is included Escherichia coli, it reaches to 47.62% (10); and if also it is included Enterococcus it reaches to 66.66%(14). It was demonstrated the existence of domestic sewage discharge in all the beaches considered as unacceptable; in 35.75% (05) with visual inspection; in 14.29% (02) was observed water running with fecal pollution and in 50% (07) by the relation between E. coli and Enterococcus.Downloads
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