Isolation and Characterization of Stream Water Bacteria from ESA-OKE Metropolis

Water is essential to life, but many people do not have access to clean and safe drinking water and many die of waterborne bacterial infections. The study accessed the bacteria mean count of the three selected reputable streams in Esa-Oke metropolis and identified the bacteria isolated from the streams. The viable bacterial count was determined by the water samples up to 100.1 from 10 and 10 dilutions. Pour plate and streak plate methods were used for bacteria plate count and sub culturing respectively. Selective and differential media were also used for bacteria characterization. The result obtained from plate count shows that Afon Oke had higher count than other and also revealed that there is more Staphylococcus aureus in Ekoro than other while that from Arubu had more Pseudomonas aeruginosa than others. The study concluded that the stream should be monitor from the source since they are very close to residential areas and outbreak of water borne disease in imminent as well as the water inspection from the source should be consider very important.