Critical Assessment of River Water Quality and Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)

Abstract

Water and wastewater systems in Iraq have thoroughly been damaged in the First and Second Gulf Wars. Moreover, the Hussein regime in Iraq left the water system to collapse, and caused it to be in desperate need of modernization, redevelopment and improvement. The purpose of this study, samples was collected from two stations along the Diyala River within Baghdad City. The major sources of data are the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Water Resources. We used Detection of Violation to determine the water quality of the Diyala River and Al-Rustumiya Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Violation for Diyala River shows the parameters (BOD, SO4, PO4 & Cl) are 100% violations and that maximum level of pollution. Al-Rustumiya Wastewater Treatment Plant was having very high levels of violation for the years (2005, 2006 & 2007) and the values were between (55% - 87%