EL PH Y CLORO RESIDUAL DEL AGUA INTRADOMICILIARIA Y SU EFECTO EN LA SALUD DE LOS HABITANTES DE SAN ALEJO DE LA CIUDAD DE PORTOVIEJO. MAYO – OCTUBRE DEL 2006

Abstract

The present study identified the PH and residual chlorine of the water intradomicily and its effect in the health of the inhabitants of San Alejo the city of Portoviejo during the period of May - October of the 2006 It carried out a descriptive study, not experimental, transactional, correlacional, the same one that had a sample of 303 houses of the population's total, the monthly reports of the illnesses sharp diarreic were also revised using the form EPI2, of the sub center of health San Alejo. Concomitantly the cultivation of a sample of water was made, to determine if the consumption water is capable for the same one. It carried out the gathering of information by means of the use of a clorímeter with which was measured the PH and the residual chlorine of the water of the keys of the living, for that which an observation guide was designed where you/they registered all the necessary data, the same ones that were tabulated and processed to obtain the conclusions and recommendations of the present study. Once carried out this the following results were obtained: in 94% of the gathered samples it was obtained that the quantity of normal residual chlorine and 64% of the gathered samples were obtained a PH in the normal water. According to the statistical data of the sub center of Health San Alejo it was found that the adult numbers of cases of EDA they were in the month of July of the 2006, these they represented 17% of the total of cases reported in this period. When carrying out the cultivation of a sample of water in the Institute Isquieta Pérez of the San Alejo it was obtained that according to the norm INEN the sample of taken water fulfills all the norms for water potabilicy.