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Water Quality Index and Environmental Assessment of Rosetta Branch Aquatic System, Nile River, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

This study was carried out on Rosetta branch water and 3 drains (El-Rahawy, El-Soble and El-Gezira) that discharging wastewater into it, to assess the Water Quality Index (WQI) of their waters. This investigation was performed during the period starting from winter 2017 to summer 2018. The mean annual averages of WQI values of Rosetta branch Water were good to poor for irrigation (up to 55) and from poor to very poor for aquatic life (up to 97) at stations exposed to wastewater discharged from drains into water branch. The obtained values of physical and chemical variables of Rosetta branch and drains water were matched with the standard values set by FAO (1994) for irrigation and Canadian Water Quality Guidelines (2011) for aquatic life. The obtained results indicated that the values of examined variables were higher than the recommended standards which affects the environmental live in this area and producing healthy problems. The concentrations of physical and chemical parameter were higher during winter than summer.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2021.92605.4405

Keywords

Rosetta Branch, Nile River, Water quality index, El-Rahawy, El-Soble, EL-Gezira drain

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdo

MiddleName

H

Affiliation

National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo, Egypt

Email

mh_omr@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Hanan

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo 11795, Egypt

Email

hananbasiony@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Maher

Last Name

Helal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo 11795, Egypt

Email

ahmednrc5@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Medhat

Last Name

Fekry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo 11795, Egypt

Email

chemogeomedhat@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdelhamid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Polymers & Pigments Department, National Research Centre, 33 El-Buhouth St., Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ahmednrc10@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-1421-366X

Volume

65

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

29683

Issue Date

2022-04-01

Receive Date

2021-08-29

Publish Date

2022-04-01

Page Start

321

Page End

331

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_199945.html

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Original Article

Type Code

297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

Publication Link

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Water Quality Index and Environmental Assessment of Rosetta Branch Aquatic System, Nile River, Egypt

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Created At

22 Jan 2023