COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON (TPH) LEVELS IN BASRAH GOVERNORATE /IRAQ

Abstract

As the document of national strategy for Iraqi environment protection from(2013-2017) shows that the environmental awareness concepts is new in the Iraqi society and so limited due to the economic and security priorities under the current conditions, especially aqua environmental awareness side, for verifying this important variable an investigation was carried out to measure the amount of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon for six water channels in Basrah, which polluted from different sources, these are Al Garmah River, Shatt Al Arab(Corniesh street location), (Abu Floos, Khor Al Zubair, Umm Qasr, and Al Fao ) Ports. The highest concentration of TPH was found inUmm Qasr Port, 22.10 µg/L and the lowest concentration of TPH was found in Al Garmah River, 5.35 µg/L.