Assessment of Bacterial Load in Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Bottled Water Marketed in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Table 2

Correlation between physical parameters and microbiological parameters.

	Bottle type	pH	EC	TDS	HPC	Coliform count	Pseudomonascount
Bottle type	1	-0.156	-0.007	0.036	0.780	0.780	-0.441
pH		1	0.002	0.127	-0.165	-0.165	0.280
EC			1	0.251	0.210	0.210	-0.072
TDS				1	0.153	0.153	-0.145
HPC					1	1	-0.525
Coliform count						1	-0.525
Pseudomonas count							1

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tail). Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tail).