المياه العادمة و أثرها على الخزان الجوفي في محافظة دير البلح : دراسة في جغرافية البيئة

Abstract EN

This paper points out the harmful impact of waste water resulting from human use in Deir El-Balah govrnorate and the drainage system there.

Dier El-Balah lacks intergral sanitary sewage systems that serve people well.

Accordingly, people depend on absorption holes or drainage ditches and gutters in discharging their waste water.

This system of waste water disposal along with the loose soil of the govermorate led to the penetration of polluted water into the underground drinking water reservoirs.

The study reveals the unfit of the underground water for drinking because of high salt proportions, and total sobuble materials, chloride, nitrates, and flour that exceeded the WHO and Palestinian standards.

The pollution that impacted the underground reservoirs reservoirs in the govermorate and non protective methods followed in water usage leads to high rate of diseases that are commected to the polluted water.

The number of infected person by Hepatitis A+B is 205 along with 20770 person infected by different diseases connected with polluted water.

The study also forward aview of how to stop the environmental degradation of the underground reservoirs in the Govermorate.