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Assessment of Surface Water Quality of the Nile River at Damietta Branch, Egypt

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Environmental Sciences and their applications

Abstract

The Nile River's quality is the problem concerning everyone's health in Egypt. It is subject to many sources of pollution from municipalities, agriculture, and industry. This study aimed to analyses the water quality of the river Nile at the Damietta branch. Water samples were collected from the Damietta branch, the Physico-chemical parameters and some heavy metals were analyzed which includes: (Temperature, PH, Turbidity, EC, TDS, alkalinity, total hardness, Ca++ and Mg++ hardness, chlorides, sulfates, and Aluminium, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, iron, manganese, and silica. The results indicated that, the turbidity concentration was 7.81 NTU, while temperature, pH , EC, and TDS were 23ºC, 8.03, 403.75 µmohs/cm, and 266.25 mg/l, respectively. The concentrations of alkalinity, total hardness, Ca++ and Mg++ hardness were 142, 131.5, 82.5, and 49 mg/l, respectively. While chlorides, sulfates, and Aluminium concentrations were 27, 34.25, and 0.063 mg/l, respectively; ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate concentrations were 0.13, 0.083, and 0.59 mg/l, respectively. Iron, manganese, and silica concentrations were 0.058, 0.05, and 1.3 mg/l, respectively. All of the physicochemical parameters of the water samples were within the permissible limits Heavy metals as Cu, Co, Cd, Ni, Zn, and Pb were recorded within the permissible limits , except for Cd, Ni, and Pb that higher than permissible limits of WHO standards for drinking water. The present study observed that the overall water quality of the Nile River in the study area ranged from marginal to good according to the Egyptian standards of the Nile River protection agency.

DOI

10.21608/sjdfs.2023.173123.1065

Keywords

Nile River, Drinking water, Physicochemical parameters

Authors

First Name

Omnya

Last Name

El-Battrawy

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta City, 34517, Damietta, Egypt

Email

om_elbatrawy@du.edu.eg

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First Name

Amany

Last Name

Farid Hasballah

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Affiliation

Faculty of science- Damietta university-Egypt

Email

dr_env_env@yahoo.com

City

New Damietta city

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First Name

Hadeer

Last Name

El-Gohary

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Damietta University

Email

hadeer_gohary@yahoo.com

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Volume

13

Article Issue

2

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42093

Issue Date

2023-09-01

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2022-11-19

Publish Date

2023-09-01

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1

Page End

9

Print ISSN

2314-8594

Online ISSN

2314-8616

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2,045

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Scientific Journal for Damietta Faculty of Science

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Assessment of Surface Water Quality of the Nile River at Damietta Branch, Egypt

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28 Dec 2024