Drinking Water Quality Status and Contamination in Pakistan

Table 5

Physicochemical and biological parameters of drinking water quality of Baluchistan.

Baluchistan; sampling locations	Total	Percentage of samples contaminated										References
		pH	EC	TDS	Turbidity	Hardness	Physicochemical values	Total coliform	Fecal coliform	E. coli	Bacteriological values
Hingol river, Baluchistan	22	—	12.5	—	—	—	—	Present	Present	—	—	[27]
Quetta	200	—	—	—	—	—	39	—	—	—	60	[28]
Khudar, Loralai, Quetta, and Ziarat	66	—	—	6	7.5	—	57.5	Present	Present	Present	80.3	[2]
Quetta	16	—	12.5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	[29]