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The City of Goma continue to face a big problem of safe drinking water. The Regideso that is supposed to supply water in the town still not able to reach the water demand capacity of the town.
Due to technical problems, lack of electricity and moreover limitation on water pipeline network in all the city, safe water in Goma remains a big challenge.
The 2002 volcanic eruption natural disaster had affected many water facilities include the Regideso water pipeline network that was destroyed by the lava. Since, waterborne diseases in Goma have been present and repetitive all these years.
After identification of different collecting water points, samples were collected and analysed in the microbiologic laboratory. All the collected samples directly from lake Kivu were contaminated. Contrary to the water samples collected from the public tap stand, private taps that’s are managed by private.
Using the demography of municipalities of Goma, results showed that Karisimbi remains the municipality where there is lack of private tap stand of Regideso. Despite the demography that is high in that area, water access remains a big challenge in that area.
Goma municipality that is a urban municipality showed few cases of contaminated water out of all the samples collected directly from the Lake.
The lack of quantity of water as well as in quality has always lead to waterborne diseases. Epidemiologic data were collected from the Health Zone Office, and showed how diseases are spread in this area for these last 5 years. Typhoid Fever showed a high constant and number of waterborne diseases cases.
Key Words: Safe Water, Water Quality, Waterborne diseases, Demographic growth Rate
