Shetty, Sanjana S.
Patil, Shantharam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3874-2232
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 19 March 2025
Accepted: 26 August 2025
First Online: 24 September 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Ethical clearance was taken from Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital Institutional Ethics Committee (Registration No. ECR/146/Inst/KA/2013/RR-19) with certificate no.IEC:135/2021, for the collection of water samples from households and its microbial analysis. Informed consent was taken from local authorities as well as head members representing individual households, for the collection of water samples.
: All authors approved the manuscript for publication.