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Application of Chemical and Biological Indices to Water Quality Assessment of the Nile River at Assiut City, Egypt

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Zoology and Entomology

Abstract

Chemical and biological indices provide a comprehensive picture of monitoring and evaluating water quality. There are few studies that use biological indices to assess the freshwater quality in Egypt. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the water quality of the Nile River and the treated wastewater canal at Assiut City, Egypt, using the biotic indices that depend on macroinvertebrates (NBPI) or zooplankton (WZI), and compare the results with the physicochemical index (WQI). During the summer of 2022 and winter of 2023, water and invertebrate samples were collected from four different sites. The collected data of physicochemical parameters, zooplankton, and macroinvertebrates were used for calculating the investigated water quality indices. The results revealed significant differences between the collected samples for all studied indices. The Nile Biotic Pollution Index (NBPI) and Wetland Zooplankton Index (WZI) showed significant regression with the Water Quality Index. NBPI index was highly significant regression with WQI, which indicates that macroinvertebrates are more suitable than zooplankton for assessment of water quality

DOI

10.21608/aunj.2024.326365.1095

Keywords

Zooplankton, Macroinvertebrates, Water Quality Index (WQI), Nile Biotic Pollution Index (NBPI), Watland Zooplankton Index (WZI)

Authors

First Name

Khaleid

Last Name

Abd El-Wakeil

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Affiliation

Zoology & Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, 71516, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

kfwakeil@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0003-4196-0414

First Name

Nouran

Last Name

Tawfik

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Zoology and Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

nouranamer010@gmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Zienab

Last Name

El-Bakary

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Zoology and Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

zelbakary@yahoo.com

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Volume

54

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

52460

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-10-07

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

86

Page End

98

Print ISSN

2812-5029

Online ISSN

2812-5037

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https://aunj.journals.ekb.eg/article_399922.html

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Novel Research Articles

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2,242

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Publication Title

Assiut University Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research

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https://aunj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Application of Chemical and Biological Indices to Water Quality Assessment of the Nile River at Assiut City, Egypt

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28 Dec 2024