Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
Open Access

Abstract

Water pollution refers to any alteration in biological and physicochemical characteristics of a water body that causes harm or nuisance to the beneficial use of this source. Since, Nile River is the main source of water for drinking purpose in Egypt, is the improvement and protection of the Nile River water quality is one of the most important national objectives. This study aims to determine the extent of water pollution of the Menyat Samanoud agriculture drain at El-Dakahliya governorate in order to determine the possibility of use drain water in irrigation. Biological, chemical and physical analyses of water at 6 sites (1=The beginning of the drain; 2=At front of the sewage treatment station; 3=The best factory discharge; 4=The mixed point of the factory discharge and the drain; 5=In front of the Nawsa El-Bahr village; 6=The end of the drain) revealed that the drain water was polluted by high load of turbidity, salinity, TDS, TSS, BOD, COD, chlorine, fluorine, phosphate, sulfates, total alkalinity, TVBCs, TC, FC, FS, pathogenic bacteria and deficiency of DO, which varied from season to another and from site to site.

Biography

Eslam Abd El Moula Ahmed Baklola is a Microbiologist at Central Laboratory for Environmental Quality Monitoring, National Water Research Center, Egypt.

Email: eslam_baklola@hotmail.com