Evaluation of microbial quality of the drinking water of al-Bashaar water treatment plant in wasit province southern of Iraq

Joint Authors

al-Tamimi, Wisam B.
al-Azzawi, Ahmad J.

Source

Engineering and Technology Journal

Publisher

University of Technology

Publication Date

2018-02-28

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Earth Sciences, Water and Environment

English Abstract

The microbial quality of drinking water which distributed form Al-Bashaar water treatment plant and number of residential areas fed by these water treatment plant was studied each month over six months during a period extended from the October 2013 to April 2014, through the purification stages up to residential sites at different areas situated with various distances from the supplying source, two samples were taken monthly.

This station derived their water from AL-Gharraf River in the southeastern part of Iraq, where the feed areas of the city with drinking water.

This study included detection of bacteria, evidence of contamination of water and some physical and chemical variables.

Results of Bacteriological tests showed increasing in TPC, TC, FC, E.coli and FS bacteria in December and January in all study locations as compared to those of the other months for water plant raw and drinking water and the FS values was less than other bacterial types for water plant .Physiochemical tests showed that air temperature at sampling time was varied between17 and 34°C and between11.5 and 29°C, for water temperature at sampling time also.

The results of pH means were within the allowable limit.

The highest mean value of turbidity recorded for raw water was in December and the lowest value was in April, while the highest mean value recorded for drinking water was again in December and the lowest value was in April.

The highest mean value of residual chlorine was recorded in March; the lowest value was 0 mg/L in some of the farthest points of the plant.

From this study, it can be concluded that the drinking water produced by Al-Bashaar plant is mostly undesirable for drinking according to the Iraqi and WHO standards for the drinking water.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-839463

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