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. 2014 Dec 18;9(12):e114997. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114997

Table 3. Summary statistics of the microbiological quality of samples of source and drinking water collected at each follow-up visit.

Source Drinking Paired samples
n AM 95% CI WM 95% CI n AM 95% CI WM 95% CI n Mean Log10 difference 95% CI % with>1 Log10 reduction n % with>1 Log10 reduction among sources TTC>0
Rural
Visit 1 92 22.9 9.7–36.1 3.7 3.3–6.6 87 55.2 17.0–93.5 2.8 1.5–4.9 84 0.06 −0.2–0.3 13.1 46 23.9
Visit 2 90 20.0 7.7–32.3 4.0 2.6–6.1 79 23.0 7.7–38.4 3.3 1.9–5.4 79 0.09 −0.1–0.3 12.7 47 21.3
Visit 3 79 27.9 16.8–39.1 5.9 3.6–9.3 66 39.7 7.5–71.8 4.6 2.5–7.9 66 0.07 −0.1–0.3 13.6 42 21.4
Urban
Visit 1 92 19.7 13.6–25.9 3.7 2.2–5.9 89 41.2 11.2–71.2 2.1 2.1–3.7 85 0.14 −0.1–0.4 21.2 37 48.7
Visit 2 86 31.0 19.4–42.6 7.6 4.7–11.8 82 37.3 10.9–63.6 2.0 1.0–3.5 78 0.44 0.2–0.7 34.6 46 58.7
Visit 3 86 24.0 10.8–37.3 4.4 2.7–6.8 80 46.0 6.3–85.8 2.4 0.6–2.5 76 0.36 0.1–0.6 25.0 44 43.2

AM =  Arithmetic mean, WM =  Williams mean.