ABSTRACT
Millions of children get debilitated and pass on consistently from water, sanitation, and hygiene diseases. Children‟s ability to learn may be affected by inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions in several ways. Twenty basic schools under the School Feeding Programme were randomly selected from 10 towns within the Mampong Municipality. A total of 140 pupils were randomly selected from the 20 schools for the study. Water samples were taken from each of the schools for their physicochemical and microbial quality analyses. The findings of the study revealed that most of the water used by pupils in the selected schools had microbial contamination. More than 70% of the towns had total coliforms in water samples whilst 50% of the samples had faecal coliforms. Half of the towns had both faecal and total coliform in their water samples. Total coliform values ranged from 0.67±0.58 to 37.67±19.66 cfu/100ml and faecal coliforms 4.33±4.51 – 11.67±7.64 cfu/100ml.All physicochemical parameters were within allowable limits except pH, which were below the minimum pH level in water recommended by WHO. pH levels were between 5.02±1.59 to 6.23±0.25. It appears that microbial contamination was detected were very high in the form of Total and Faecal Coliform Bacteria. And water samples were slightly acidic, compared to the WHO recommended guidelines.

ABSTRACT
Aging has resulted in dramatic effects on body organs and development of metabolic diseases with suspected origin from defects of gonads. The research is to examine the aging related changes of cytological framework of the pituitary adenohypophysis and demonstrate the antiaging effects of supplementation of whey. Eight and 30-months old rats were divided into two main groups with or without whey supplementation (n=4). Whey supplementation was carried out every other day for two months. This was accompanied by euthanization and dissection of pituitary gland, fixation in phosphate buffered osmium tetraoxide and processed for transmission electron microscopic examination. Whey supplementation of 8 moth-old rats maintained the secretory function of somatotroph and gonadotroph cells. However, old rats (30 month old) possessed edematous lesions in sommatotroph and gonadotroph cells with degranulation of secretory granules. Congestion of blood capillaries and accumulation of fat globules were observed. Whey supplementation to old rats improved the cytopathological changes and restored the accumulation of secretory granules. The capacity of whey supplementation to restore the secretory function of sommatotroph and gonadotroph cells that are responsible for the secretion of growth hormone and testosterone and follicle stimulating hormone that decrease the aging related development of diseases.