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Article Open Access August 16, 2021

When Water Turns Deadly: Investigating Source Identification and Quality of Drinking Water in Piwoyi Community of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria.

Afolabi Abiodun Segun 1 and Raimi Morufu Olalekan 2,*
1
Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Science, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria.
2
Department of Community Medicine, Environmental Health Unit, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Publihed in: Current Research in Public Health (Volume 1, Issue 1, 2021)
Page(s): 38-58
DOI: 10.31586/ojc.2021.010105
Received
July 08, 2021
Revised
August 03, 2021
Accepted
August 15, 2021
Published
August 16, 2021
Keywords
Emerging Remedial Measures; Health Risk Assessment; Drinking Water Resources, Piwoyi Community, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
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Segun, A. A. , & Olalekan, R. M. (2021). When Water Turns Deadly: Investigating Source Identification and Quality of Drinking Water in Piwoyi Community of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria.. Current Research in Public Health, 1(1), 38-58. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojc.2021.010105
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Segun, A. A. ; Olalekan, R. M. When Water Turns Deadly: Investigating Source Identification and Quality of Drinking Water in Piwoyi Community of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria.. Current Research in Public Health 2021 1(1), 38-58. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojc.2021.010105
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Segun, Afolabi Abiodun, and Raimi Morufu Olalekan. 2021. "When Water Turns Deadly: Investigating Source Identification and Quality of Drinking Water in Piwoyi Community of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria.". Current Research in Public Health 1, no. 1: 38-58. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojc.2021.010105
AMA Style
Segun AA, Olalekan RM. When Water Turns Deadly: Investigating Source Identification and Quality of Drinking Water in Piwoyi Community of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria.. Current Research in Public Health. 2021; 1(1):38-58. https://doi.org/10.31586/ojc.2021.010105 
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