Assessment of Mahmoudia Canal and Drinking Water Nitrogen Forms Following Some Corrective Actions
Mousa, I., El-Rakshy, N. (2010). Assessment of Mahmoudia Canal and Drinking Water Nitrogen Forms Following Some Corrective Actions. EKB Journal Management System, 40(1), 24-40. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2010.20587
Ibrahim Mousa; Nihal El-Rakshy. "Assessment of Mahmoudia Canal and Drinking Water Nitrogen Forms Following Some Corrective Actions". EKB Journal Management System, 40, 1, 2010, 24-40. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2010.20587
Mousa, I., El-Rakshy, N. (2010). 'Assessment of Mahmoudia Canal and Drinking Water Nitrogen Forms Following Some Corrective Actions', EKB Journal Management System, 40(1), pp. 24-40. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2010.20587
Mousa, I., El-Rakshy, N. Assessment of Mahmoudia Canal and Drinking Water Nitrogen Forms Following Some Corrective Actions. EKB Journal Management System, 2010; 40(1): 24-40. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2010.20587

Assessment of Mahmoudia Canal and Drinking Water Nitrogen Forms Following Some Corrective Actions

Journal of High Institute of Public Health
Article 3, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2010, Page 24-40  XML PDF (262.97 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/jhiph.2010.20587
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Authors
Ibrahim Mousa1; Nihal El-Rakshy* 2
1Head of laboratory and Research sector, Alexandria Water Company. Alexandria, Egypt
2Environmental Biotechnology department, GEBRI, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
Abstract
The Nile is the main source of drinking water in Egypt. Alexandria water Company (AWCO) depends on the surface water only as canals fed by the Nile River. AWCO has 8 water treatment plants (WTP), 6 of which are located on Mahmoudia canal. AWCO has a monthly comprehensive program to survey canals supplying water to Alexandria water treatment plants (WTP), where all parameters of Mahmoudia canal and drain discharges are measured. This study was carried out during the period from March 2008 to Jan. 2010 and the program is still implemented until now. AWCO regularly monitors the water quality in the canals in the Rosetta branch of the Nile, all the way up to the Delta Barrage near Cairo. The water quality in Mahmoudia canal is stable at a manageable level. The raw water of WTPs has faced serious problems that are affected by the increasing free ammonia and nitrite in winter season. Many corrective steps (hourly free ammonia detection, break point of chlorination and prefiltration powdered activated carbon installation) were taken to overcome these problems. The main objective of this study was to identify long term feasible solutions for the drinking water quality problems on the basis of physical and chemical water parameters. The which are corrective actions had reduced the free ammonia values by more than 75% for WTPs distributed drinking water all over the years.
 
Keywords
Canal water; Drinking water; nitrogen forms treatment
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