Techniques for Detecting Water Quality Parameters in Water Courses

Abstract

The scarcity of fresh water quantities in many parts of the world imposes the need for efficient use of the available resources. Pollution of water resources represents a great hazard which sometimes creates a situation where the loss in quantity is of less harm than the effect of contamination. To get simple means to measure and predict water quality parameters along a water course, the reach of the River Nile from Esna to Naga-Hammadi Barrages downstream Aswan was chosen for data collection. The Iso-Line technique as well as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were utilized to analyze the data in order to detect water quality.