AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 19 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW220013
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Study The Suitability of Water Quality For Agricultural  Uses In Al- Diwaniyah Governorate in Iraq

Rana Abd Al-Hadi Mukheef1* Alaa Adnan Obayes2 Zainab Ali Omran3
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1 Department of Hydraulic Structure, College of Water Resource Engineering, University of AL Qasim Green, Babylon, Iraq
2 Al-Musayyib Technology College, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Babylon –51006, Iraq
3 Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Babylon, Babylon, Iraq
AJWEP 2022, 19(1), 87–92; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW220013
Submitted: 3 July 2021 | Revised: 19 July 2021 | Accepted: 19 July 2021 | Published: 19 January 2022
© 2022 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

This study was conducted to assess the water quality of the Diwaniyah river by using the water quality  index for irrigation uses (WQII), which was done over the period from November 2019 to June 2020. The water  quality of the river shape has a different pattern over various climatic areas. Our study evaluated the spatial scale  variation of the water quality index (WQI) to comprehend this phenomenon. They were analysed based on the  standard methods for the following parameters: SAR, HCO3–, Cl– , Na+ , and EC. The assessment of water quality  was made using the water quality index (WQI). The calculated value of WQII for six stations along the river for the  eight months duration showed that the water might be utilised in soils texture with moderate to high permeability  magnitudes; being proposed that moderate leaching of salts for soils and plants with moderate tolerance to salts  may be grown in moderate restrictions (MR) depending on the index of irrigation water quality

Keywords
Water quality index (WQI)
Diwaniyah river
irrigation
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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