Effect of household hygiene training on water Quality to reduce Incidence Diarrhoea in Goma District. Specific case of Mugunga and lac vert quoter

Water is an essential element for human life, having it in sufficient quantity and quality contributes to the maintenance of human health. The objective was to analyze microbiological quality of drinking water in Goma district. The design of this study includes experimental, qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample size of this study was 396 adults and water analyses be done, for the total population estimated at 63492 in the Lac vert and mugunga neighborhoods. A survey was used to collect data from respondents. Collected data be processed with the SPSS version 20 software and analysed using the Chi-square test. Results were presented in tables. Results found were useful in reducing the diarrhea incidence in order to prevent health problems in our study environment. In view of the above, the following results were found: the samples taken in the two zones had presented turbidity, 47.8% before center training, 2.79% after training in the intervention zone, the control zone had presented 48.2% turbidity in phase 1 compared to 75.55% in phase 2, the majority of germs identified on gram staining in the intervention zone were gram negative bacilli (88.9% before training against 4.44% after training). On the other hand, the control zone revealed 84.4% in phase 1 against 90.55% in phase 2, the majority of germs identified on MacConkey in the intervention zone were positive (88.9% before training against 4.44% after training), the majority of bacteria identified before training were reduced to 100% after training in our area of intervention with LRV at least 3 which means reduction percentage of 99.9%. Conclusively, laboratory analyses showed that households containers used in the study area are not good for water storage consumption and susceptible to cause health problems.