期刊名称：Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1994-7887
电子版ISSN：2077-2181
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：90-106
DOI：10.3923/jest.2014.90.106
出版社：Asian Network for Scientific Information
摘要：The quality of drinking water is a universal health concern and access to safe water is a fundamental human right. Many national and international organizations set certain parameters and levels for Bottled Drinking Water (BDW) to ensure their quality. The present work aims to analyze the quality of various brands of BDW used in Saudi Arabia and to compare the quality levels to the BDW standards. One hundred and twenty six samples of 54 different BDW brands were collected from the Saudi market. The quality level parameters were analyzed using portable meters for pH, EC and TDS; spectrophotometer, HACH DR-2800 for F, SO4 and NO3; Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Mass Spectrometer (MS) and atomic emission spectrometer (AES) for elemental analysis. To evaluate the quality level parameters of BDW, the parameters were classified as following: (1) Parameters and substances affect the quality of BDW (pH, EC, TDS, HCO3, F, NO3 and SO4). (2) Macronutrients (Ca, K, Mg and Na). (3) Micronutrients-trace elements (Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mo, Se and Zn), (4) Potentially essential elements that have some beneficial health effects (B, Mn, Ni and V) and (5) Toxic elements (Al, As, Cd, Hg, Pb, Th and U) using Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS. The concentrations of the detected elements were compared with the Golf and international standard like World Health Organization.
