International Journal of Engineering Research
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 5

Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Surfaces and Underground Irrigation Waters at Ouagadougou, Boulbi and Tanghin-Dassouri

  • Author:
  • Moumouni Derra1, Luc T. Bambara1,2,, Ousmane I. Cisse1, Karim Kabore1, Inoussa Zongo1,3, Pr. François Zougmoré1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 97 to 100

1Laboratory of materials and Environment, Physics Department Training and Research Unit Exact and Applied Science, University of Ouagadougou I Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso

2Yalgado Ouedraogo Teaching Hospital, X-rays and Nuclear Medicine Department, Burkina Faso

3National Center of Scientific Research and Technology, Burkina Faso

*Email: telado.luc.bambara@gmail.com

Online published on 2 July, 2018.

Abstract

The aims of this study was to characterize and to quantify the heavy metals pollution in surface and underground waters used for the irrigation. This work permitted to value the degree of sanitary risk that the populations incur. The heavy metals concentration, gotten with the ICP-MS, show that some samples were polluted in Mn and in Se: concentrations of Mn in sample E1and those of Se in samples E2, E5, E7, and E8 were above the recommended limit. The use of these waters resources, without treatment, for the irrigation could generate serious consequences for the human health.

Keywords

Concentration, heavy metals, pollution, norms, WHO, p.p.b