Sources of water pollution within the Nile River

Despite the great value and benefit provided by the waters of the Nile River to the countries through which it passes, it does not receive attention and care with the same value and benefit, as the waters of the Nile River are exposed to many negative practices that cause pollution and waste of its great value. The following is an explanation of the sources of pollution of the Nile waters. .

sources of industrial pollution

Factories built near the Nile River throw millions of tons of their solid or chemical waste into the waters of the Nile River, or small sources that eventually flow into the course of the Nile River. The waste of food factories is the largest source of the industrial pollutants of the Nile River, and then comes the waste The chemical factories, and then the wastes of the metallurgical factories. It is worth noting that the vast majority of these factories pump their liquid wastes into the river without subjecting them to treatment. These wastes polluting the waters of the Nile often cause many damages, including:

Increasing the percentage of suspended solid waste in the waters of the Nile River and sedimentation therein.
Imbalance in water movement and temperature.
Low dissolved oxygen in the water, in addition to the death of many aquatic plants such as algae and plankton.
Decreased rate of water purification due to the elimination of chemicals from the aerobic bacteria responsible for this.
Fish are poisoned by mercury compounds dumped in the river water, and humans are poisoned when eating these fish.

sources of biological pollution

Biological pollutants reach the waters of the Nile River through the sewage pipes that flow into it, which transmit to it many micro and non-microorganisms such as bacteria, microbes, parasites, algae and a number of aquatic plants, and these organisms often cause human or animal disease if they enter their body due to Drinking or swimming in contaminated water, and among the most important diseases caused by these biological pollutants are typhoid, cholera, ascaris worm and hepatitis virus.

Sources of organic pollution

Organic pollutants are represented in the corpses of unanalyzed animals and the remains of branches and stems of trees that are thrown into the Nile River, whose decomposition in the water causes the consumption of high rates of dissolved oxygen in the water, which reduces the remaining rates of oxygen for respiration and suffocation of fish and other aquatic organisms, and the spread of microbes and fungal diseases in the waters.

sources of agricultural pollution

The sources of agricultural pollution are the toxic chemical fertilizers that are widely used in the agricultural areas adjacent to the Nile River, which are transmitted in one way or another to the waters of the Nile River, causing it to be polluted with many toxic compounds such as titanium, manganese, and many others.