Authors : Rais SEKI LENZO; Hugues MAKIMA MOYIKULA; Eli-Achille MANWANA MFUMUKANI; Lisette OMBA OMASOMBO; Grady KALONJI LELO; Yannick MANANGA THAMBA; Emmanuel BALU PHOBA
Volume/Issue : Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 9 - September
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DOI : 10.38124/IJISRT20SEP567
The data used in this work were collected
between the month of January and February of the year
2016 in the Lukaya River, located in the commune of
Mont-ngafula, in the city province of Kinshasa. The
DRC does not have a specific law or a water code and a
clear national policy on integrated water resources
management. Several projects exist and are underway
with the support of German cooperation. The
framework for the application of the laws of the related
sectors is hardly applied this favors pollution, the
irrational exploitation of fishery resources,
inappropriate use of chemicals raising hygienic and
environmental concerns. The objective of this work is to
assess the environmental impact of the microbiological
pollution of the water in the Lukaya River. The water
samples were taken from the different sites in 600 ml
plastic Canadian bottles and their analysis was
performed at the INRB laboratory and the approach
adopted in this work is that of membrane filtration
which led to the following results: a high bacteriological
concentration and numerous pathogens such as
Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, Enterobacter, Proteus
penneri, Citrabacter and many other bacteria which
testify to faecal contamination such as coliforms and
faecal streptococci.
Keywords : Microbiological Pollution, Lukaya River, Fecal Coliforms, Total coliforms, Enterococci.