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Table 1 Physicochemical characteristics of water samples from River Owena

From: Effect of some physicochemical parameters on the decay rate of enteric bacteria isolated from River Owena, Nigeria

Parameters

Inflow

Middle course

Outflow

Temperature (ºC)

25.75a ± 2.72

25.37a ± 2.13

26.00a ± 2.42

pH

7.08b ± 0.25

7.05bc ± 0.28

7.16ab ± 0.26

Electrical conductivity (µs/cm)

229.50c ± 6.10

217.69c ± 5.72

244.19bc ± 9.93

Total dissolved solids (mg/l)

87.68d ± 2.65

93.56 cd ± 2.79

92.87c ± 2.87

Salinity (ppt)

0.09b ± 0.03

0.10bc ± 0.03

0.11c ± 0.03

Dissolved oxygen (mg/l)

4.23b ± 2.21

4.23b ± 1.79

4.38b ± 2.11

Turbidity (NTU)

33.60c ± 2.01

32.46bc ± 0.12

35.53 cd ± 4.39

  1. Values with the same superscript are not statistically different from each other at (p = 0.05)