Author(s)

Mohamed Kamel Fattah^1*, S. A. E. Abdelrazek²

¹Environmental Studies and Researches Institute, Sadat City University, Sadat, Egypt.
²Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.

The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of the accumulation of harmful heavy metals in the irrigation water resulting from the proximity of the various activities of various water: sewage, artesian wells and industrial activities, particularly Borg El Arab Industrial area and take Nile water l Control (Bahig canal). The concentrations of these heavy metals in samples drawn from different distances from the source of irrigation in summer 2011 that contain the highest concentrations, followed by the winter of 2012. These results have shown that the amount of heavy metals in the samples at a distance of 50 meters is more than quantity of 5000 m by a 30 to 35 twice in water for irrigation, also the amount of heavy metals in the samples at a distance of 50 meters has values less than the permissible limits and disappeares completely at a distance of 5000 meters and that for different sources.

Artificial Water, Sludge Water, Pollution, Heavy Metals, Water Quality Improving

Fattah, M. and Abdelrazek, S. (2014) The Improvement of the Quality of Irrigation Water Contaminated with Heavy Metals in the Borg El Arab, Egypt. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 6, 1703-1715. doi: 10.4236/jwarp.2014.618153.