Abstract
The study conducted on the Shatt al-Arab area from Qurna district north of Basrah to the Faw city in the south. The region is characterized by a number of sources of pollution such as power stations and paper factory as well as Basrah, city densely populated. The Objective of the present work is to appreciate the concentration levels of mercury in water, sediment and plants in Shatt al-Arab area. Samples have been digest and analyzed to determine mercury using spectrofluorometry adopting the method of Mudakavi which modified by Al-Imarah et al [16]. The station No. 3 showed a higher pollution by mercury in the following order St3 > St4 > St2 >St5 >St1 Also the result in samples of sediment was high while the samples taken from the same area. The study also showed that the biggest cause of mercury pollution is paper the factory, Power plant and Sub-rivers.
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