. 15 water resources in Zakho city, including drinking bottled water, well and varying
profile at Khabur river, at wastewater discharge and before, at water purification station, and in
between to study their Pb and Cu content to compare them with the world recommended rate.
The results revealed that the highest Pb rates were detected in well water (29.767 mg. l-1
), Zereen
bottled drinking water (26.045 mg. l-1
), Tian bottled drinking water (26.48 mg. l-1
), and life
bottled drinking water (26.2 mg. l-1
). The above-mentioned treatments substantially exceeded
Khabur water near water purification station (20.264 mg. l-1
), Jimkerik location (19.844 mg. l-1
)
and at Beedar bridge (18.188 mg. l-1
). However, in significant differences were detected among
the highest pb rate treatments and Hayat bottled drinking water (25.395 mg. l-1
), Shakespeare
bottled drinking water (24.34 mg. l-1
), Mazy bottled drinking water (25.315 mg. l-1
), Lava bottled
drinking water (24.65 mg.l-1
), Kavi bottled drinking water (25.105 mg. l-1
), Waha bottled
drinking water (24.625 mg. l-1
), Shereen bottled drinking water (24.77 mg. l-1
), and water at
purification station (22.992 mg. l-1
). Well showed the highest Cu polluted water (12.21 mg. l-1
),
it profoundly bypassed Shereen bottled water (8.11 mg. l-1
), which revealed the lowest Cu
pollution value, Hayat bottled water (9.36 mg. l-1
), Shakespeare (9.4 mg. l-1
), Mazy bottled water
(9.63 mg. l-1
), Tian bottled water (10.09 mg. l-1
), life bottled water ((9.82 mg. l-1
), Lava bottled
water (9.79 mg. l-1
), and Waha bottled water (10.08 mg. l-1
). Insignificant differences were
observed among well water and Kavi bottled water (10.64 mg. l-1
), Zereen bottled water (10.31
mg. l-1
), water at purification station (10.51 mg. l-1
), water at wastewater discharge (10.88 mg. l1
), water at Beedar bridge (11.2 mg. l-1
) and water at Jimkerik (11.06 mg. l-1
).
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