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Mohamed G El-Ziney
Faculty of Agriculture,
PO Box 21454 Alexandria
Egypt
Research Article
Effectiveness of Groundwater Treatment for Drinking Use and Dairy and Food Processing
Author(s): Mohamed G El-Ziney1, Abdalla S Ammar and Ahmad I Al-Turki
Mohamed G El-Ziney1, Abdalla S Ammar and Ahmad I Al-Turki
Groundwater supplies should undergo comprehensive water quality testing to ensure suitability for drinking water and dairy production purposes Evaluation of chemical characteristics and microbiological quality as well as treatment processes applied for the removal of contaminants from ground water extracted from Al-Sag aquifer in Buraydah, Qassim region were investigated. The tested water samples from both well sources and effluents were found to have total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity and turbidity values within the acceptable limits of Saudi standards and WHO guidelines. Of course, the reduction percentages were the same for EC and TDS (58.6-93.6%) while it scored 0.0-100% for turbidity due to the adopted treatment processes. Chemical characteristics such as total alkalinity, chloride, nitrate and hardness were also found to be within.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2329-888X.1000201