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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Evaluation of Tigris River by Water Quality Index Analysis Using C++ Program

  AUTHORS: Allaa M. Aenab, S. K. Singh, Adil Abbas Majeed Al-Rubaye

  KEYWORDS: Tigris River; Water Quality; WQI; C++ Program and River Evaluation

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Water Resource and Protection, Vol.4 No.7, June 18, 2012

  ABSTRACT: In the capital city of Baghdad, The surface water suffering from effect of conservative pollutants. Baghdad city has two rivers, the main river Tigris River and Diyala River in boundary of Baghdad city (Jassir Diyala) eastern of Baghdad. The present study deals with the evaluation of water quality of Tigris River within Baghdad. In the case of Tigris River the concentrations of TH, TDS, PO4 and SO4 were found to lie outside the acceptable range of WHO standards by using WQI analysis and C++ program.