Quality assessment of traditional water resources in Khamis Mushait City, Abha Metropolitan

Abstract EN

The physical and chemical quality within traditional water resources of Khamis Mushait city, Saudi Arabia, that are being used for various urban purpose was assessed to explore consistency.

The network sampling and cross- sectional techniques were implemented.

Googhearth digital satellite map of the study area was used as a master map for sampling.

A total of 66 water samples were collected randomly from surface and well water (33 samples each) located at and around the city.

All samples were subjected to standard analysis.

The results revealed that the overall means of turbidity (FAU), conductivity (Us / cm), total dissolved solids (mg / 1), pH, chlorides (mg / 1), hardness as CaCo3 (mg/1), sulphate (mg / 1), ammonia (mg / 1), nitrat (mg / 1), copper (mg / 1), iron (mg / 1), manganese (mg / 1), and zinc (mg/1), in water samples taken from deep wells were 9.

85 + -1.

82, 708.

0 + - 130.

6, 510.

5 + - 9.

3, 7.

45 + - 0.

07, 123.

78 + -28.

69, 85.

76 + - 18.

78, 318.

7 + - 71.

64, 0.

05 + - 0.

01, 17.

08 + - 3 .54, 1.

33 + - 0.

50, 0.

25 + - 0.

11, 0.

20 + - 0.

05, and 0.

40 + - 0.

09, respectively.

For shallow wells, the respective values were 10.

92 + - 2.

03, 2194.

62 + - 670.

42, 1255.

5 + - 405.

06, 7.

41+ - 0.

07, these results showed that shallow wells had the highest values.