The Effect of industrial effluents polluting water near their discharging in Basrah Governorate /Iraq

Abstract

Six stations had been chosen to collect water samples these industrial statisis in this study were paper factory, Al-Harth Electric Station and Al-NAjebiah Electric Station on Shatt Al-Arab. On other side, the fertilizer factory and petrochemicals companex throw their discharges in Shatt Al-Basra canal. The water samples were collected from the river near the discharge point of these factories, The sampling was carried out during months 2006 to 2007. The results showed that there were about 4679.48, 3470.99, 2.60, 0.76,70.07,14274 and 690.71 ton.year-1 of Cl , SO4 , PO4,NO3 , Oil , TDS and TSS and respectively added to Shatt Al-Arab River represent 47% - 99% of these discharge coming from the paper factory compared with Al-Harth Electric Station and Al-NAjebiah, and there were 12026.16,11335.94,34.52,1.14,32875.37,35525 and 8262.15 ton.year-1 of the above parameter added to Shatt Al Basrah canal , most of them coming from the discharge of fertilizer and petrochemicals factories .