2shure:
U go soon die Better go load 50 litres drink Or aday 1st timer Enter swimming pool Just 5 feet And drown a bit So u can drink enuf pool water I pray make u nor drink water na just God

water is to cheap,i drink only ACE of spades,it has water inside tooo

belindar:


The water coming from borehole, was it purified b4 going to houses?
Do u think the Advanced countries are stupid when they purified their water and monitor it constantly?

I understand your point. If you go to mainland you will realize that every borehole brings out clean water without treatment while on island there are contaminated water because most parts of island are sand filled. The advanced countries you are referring maybe having the same problem those on island are having.
On lsland most rich men on island dig industrial borehole which I believe septic can't affect. Though it is not advisable to dig borehole near septic tank.

Can't take advice from someone who calls a 'soak-away' a 'sucker way'.

This thing is simple if I have my own house and dig my own borehole, I will simply take a sample of the water from borehole to lab for analysis from time to time. And that solves the poo ish.

rozayx5:
In lekki here. If your borehole no extra deep na brown water u go see

It is because Lekki is sandfilled. If you want to enjoy water in Lekki,your borehole must be very very deep i.e industrial borehole which is very expensive.

this is what microbiologist study in their 3rd or 4th year, then some persons will now open their mouth and say Microbiology is a useless!
only in Nigeria.

all of you here insulting the Op and trying to shut him down, i wonder if you are humans at all,
this post is very serious matter, having grave health implications, and you guys are joking about it. hmmm

kontinu.

please i'll advice that you carry out a research before you poo here.

Tolexander:
The OP doesn't seem to know that the soil is a good filter of water going into the aquifer.

Moreover, some of these microorganisms cant survive the condition in the soil.

I may not be vast here though, but he's got a great point

Nonsense! Gibberish!

Our forefathers fetched water from the same stream that they washed themselves, urinate into and even poo into. The water they fetch is what they drink and use to cook food. How many cancer, typhoid, malaria did they have then?

Go to many villages today, people live in huts whose windows, doors have nothing like mosquito nets. How many malaria dey do dem?
Their pregnant women go to farm either on foot or on bicycles - them no dey create scenes like our township ladies. How many of dem need surgery (CS) for child birth? Some sef will just go to farm and return with a baby.

This upside-down oversabi knowledge of nowadays just taya me. People claiming to know stuff that they dont really know.
Leave us alone to drink our bore-hole water abeg. Thaink you.

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Tolexander:
The OP doesn't seem to know that the soil is a good filter of water going into the aquifer.

Moreover, some of these microorganisms cant survive the condition in the soil.

a very cold bottle of what u like...
thumbs up

During my final year in the University, my research work was " the potential effects of sewag on ground water. Case study of Bosso around Futminna". We collected water from several bore holes and measure their distance to closest source of sewage. We took those samples to the water laboratory of Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority for water quality analysis. When the result came, most of the samples pass the test and are fit for consumption. We only dictected feacal Coliform in one sample which might not necessarily be from the sewage. So our conclusion was sewage is not yet pacolating in to the acquifers that provides bore holes with water for now but if the practice of siting bore holes close to suckaways continues it might possibly result in the Op's Opinion.

MISSCONGENIALITY:
Comments here make me laugh so hard. Maybe because I'm sick and everything seems hilarious.

Pls can i drink your poo?

MISSCONGENIALITY:
you people should stop making me laugh biko.
Where's this you comment comming from.

i love u dear but i love ur bwrests more.

Tolexander:
The OP doesn't seem to know that the soil is a good filter of water going into the aquifer.

Moreover, some of these microorganisms cant survive the condition in the soil.

Soil is a good filter but to filter microorganisms, the poo has to go through so many layers of earth before it drains back into the rivers.

In most states in the south of Nigeria, our water level is too low for this type of filtration to happen.

Also, there are rules regarding how close a well should be to a soak away pit. Houses are so crowded together in Lagos and these rules are not obeyed.

Knowledge is supposed to be power to demand change.

Let us stop taking pride in our own poo.

CHeapTins:
Nonsense! Gibberish!

Our forefathers fetched water from the same stream that they washed themselves, urinate into and even poo into. The water they fetch is what they drink and use to cook food. How many cancer, typhoid, malaria did they have then?

Go to many villages today, people live in huts whose windows, doors have nothing like mosquito nets. How many malaria dey do dem?
Their pregnant women go to farm either on foot or on bicycles - them no dey create scenes like our township ladies. How many of dem need surgery (CS) for child birth? Some sef will just go to farm and return with a baby.

This upside-down oversabi knowledge of nowadays just taya me. People claiming to know stuff that they dont really know.
Leave us alone to drink our bore-hole water abeg. Thaink you.

Lol. You are really funny.

I am sure you are sending this message from one of those huts that your ancestors built. Does it have wifi also? Android or windows?

And you also piss and sh!t in the same stream that you drink from.

texazzpete:
Can't take advice from someone who calls a 'soak-away' a 'sucker way'.

comments here are so funny.. Laughed so hard..

ThisTrend:
I came to check names, but unfortunately...

I am dissapointed

and you were looking for your Governor's name

true talk, most people feel ground water purification makes ground water safe for drinking some microbes , ions and salts forming material will survive it, the solution is easy since this same water is 40percent of the world source of drinking water, bore hole water should be properly tested and treated to the WHO standard for PURE water.

Sucker way

This guy must be high on poo!

HMZi:
Thats why i dont drink water

My bruuuda...beer sure pass. At least its purified.

Adieza:


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Woah!!!!!!!

2shure:
God knw y we never sick Nawa o

the way this op explain God matter here...the thing tire me.

Tolexander:
The OP doesn't seem to know that the soil is a good filter of water going into the aquifer.

Moreover, some of these microorganisms cant survive the condition in the soil.

I liked your comment because it gives us hope. If not nke anyi ekpome in this matter.

Fantastic piece. Absolutely illuminating. At least once in a while nairaland can be useful for something. Hats off to the OP.

This post assumes everyone is terrible at building septic tank and eually bad at water purification. Other than that conjecture it's an OK piece.

And some people will still say "Dirty no dey kill African man"

DIKEnaWAR:



I liked your comment because it gives us hope. If not nke anyi ekpome in this matter.

But the soil can't filter everything especially chemicals especially since those are not biodegradable. The chemicals from pesticides and fertilizers get into the ground and poison people who live far off. Do you know how many lawsuits the United States govt has won against companies because of this?

Tolexander:
The OP doesn't seem to know that the soil is a good filter of water going into the aquifer.

Moreover, some of these microorganisms cant survive the condition in the soil.

Times you are right up to a point but the soil cannot filter a lot of chemicals so they sip into the soil and can cause damage several miles away.

ferhyntorlah:
This article got me to confused.com

I thought the rocks beneath the earth are natural purifiers.

Geologists and soil scientists please helep me.

Yes but they can't filter everything like the chemicals from your fertilizer and all.

12inches1:
OP is quite confused. The borehole (in concept) is a deep well and not a shallow well. The soakaway that seeps into the ground often only contaminates the shallow well. The deep aquifer (or well) is often free from contamination because it is formed through years of filtering (hence purification) from water from the low level water table. The problems from soakaway pits only often arise when water is sourced from a shallow well and the soakaway sewage or leechate contaminates it.

No he is not confused, the soil is not going to filter the chemicals from your herbicides and pesticides.