Assessment of the health safety of bottled drinking water in Iraqi local markets using the WQI Model.

The study aims to determine the health safety of bottled water in the local Iraqi markets. Water samples were collected randomly for 15 brands (three replicates). Physical, chemical and bacterial tests of water samples were conducted with the application of the water quality model (WQI) to determine the quality of the studied water. The results showed that all the physical and chemical parameters analyzed were within the desired limits of the WHO, Bacteriological analysis showed that the total bacterial count of bottled water was within the limits of who except for the samples of Kani and 133 brands, which rates were 49 and 29 cells/ml and the absence of faecal coliform bacteria and WQI values ranged from 11.9 to 114.4, which were classified as excellent to poor Category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]