Consumption of bottled drinking water increase rabidly in Iraq and all over world, because
peoples think it more safe from municipal water, this study aimed to evaluation quality of ten
brands bottled drinking water that sold in local markets of Samawa city by compareresults
with limited levels of Iraqi and world health organization standards for drinking water then
compared its with labels on bottled.Thirty samples collected (three for each brand) during
April, may and June 2012 (one sample monthly) and study quality of it by measured the
following physical ,chemical and biological parameters (pH,temperature,total dissolve solids,
electrical conductivity,dissolvedoxygen,nitrite,sulfate,chloride,totalhardness,calcium ,
magnesium ,total bacterial count,Totalcoliform bacteria and fecal coliform bacteria. Results
showed 70% of studied brands were within Iraqi limited levels 1998 and W.H.O. standards
2008while 30% were above these standards for limited parameters ,SO4 for brands number 1
and 2,PO4 for number 6, temperature and dissolved oxygen can conceders normal because
varied according to favorite of consumers and temperature respectively. In all brands labels on
bottle don’t act real composition of water within it. Conclude bottled drinking water(for some
brands) don’t have enough safety. Statistical analysis results showed significant differences
between brands for most tests in level p<0.05 |