Pollution of lake Mariut
Abstract
Lake Mariut, south Alexandria, Egypt suffered in the recent
decades from intensive pollution as a result of a continuous discharge of
huge amounts of agriculture wastewater that contains a large
concentration of the washed pesticides and fertilizers in addition to
domestic and industrial untreated wastewater. The over flow from the
lake is discharged directly to the sea through El-Max pumping station via
El-Umum drain.
Lake Mariout is surrounded by a huge number of different
industrial activities and also the desert road is cutting the lake, this means
that a huge number of various pollutants cycle through the air and settle
down in the lake, by the time and during different seasons these
pollutants after accumulation and different chemical interactions will
release again from the lake to the surrounding area affecting the
surrounding zone.