Water quality in Lemoa, Guatemala Academic Article

abstract

• A variety of water supply sources are used in the rural Guatemalan Highlands. Formal municipal systems are rare, but villagers frequently form local water committees that construct spring-based supply systems. Recent work has indicated that groundwater may be a viable water supply source. The water quality from these two sources was characterized as well as water from other common sources including surface water and precipitation collection systems. Typically, all of the water sources contained unacceptable levels of coliform bacteria except for groundwater from a drilled well. Water monitoring indicated that not only did the water contain coliforms at the actual sources, but the infrastructure used to transmit the water to points of use may also be a source of coliforms. A cost comparison indicates that groundwater may be a cost-competitive, higher quality alternative to traditional spring-fed water systems. Springer-Verlag 2005.

authors

• Miller, Gretchen

published proceedings

• ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

• Elmore, A. C., Miller, G. R., & Parker, B.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Elmore, AC||Miller, GR||Parker, B

publication date

• October 2005

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Environmental Geology: international journal of geosciences  Journal

keywords

• Groundwater
• Guatemala
• Water Quality
• Water Supply

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s00254-005-0028-9

start page

• 901

end page

• 907

volume

• 48

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00254-005-0028-9

user-defined tag

• 6 Clean Water and Sanitation