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Journal Article 
Physic-chemical survey of bottled and tap water in Iraq 
Alshrefy, ZA; Alahmady, KK; Sedeeq, LJ; Al-Sharify, ZT; Moualli, N 
2021 
11 
1 
349-365 
English 
The study aimed to evaluate the bottled water quality in northern of Iraq. One hundred ninety two sachets of water samples from the four bottled water types were collected from the factories and network tap water and examined in the first half of 2019 in Mosul city in northern of Iraq, and assessed their suitability for drinking and human consumption through some physic-chemical features, which are pH, turbidity, total dissolved solid, total hardness and other main cation and anions such as calcium and magnesium, also nitrate and chloride, iron, lead, copper, cadmium, and manganese, and also micro and biological examinations. The results showed that most of the collected water samples didn`t comply with Iraq and WHO guidelines due to the exceeds of turbidity values of some bottled water and also tap water in the city, also the levels of microbiological parameters were exceeded the guideline value. The study found that the variation of water quality depends on storage conditions and also the deterioration of water quality were very high in sunlight and shadow storage conditions during the period of storage (4 months) while at refrigerator and room storage conditions; the impacts were lower. The results showed that, the values of plastic residue were highly increased with storage period at sunlight storage. The observation illustrated that, the values of total bacterial count and total algal count were highly increased with storage period at sunlight storage. The study may be do a warning and attention for the decision maker in city to avoid the human health risks. © 2021 Alpha Publishers. All rights reserved. 
Bottled water quality; Northern of Iraq; Physic-Chemical; Storage condition