PHYSICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY OF WATER OF RIVER HASSAR (CASABLANCA, MOROCCO): CHARACTERIZATION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

The objective of this study is to evaluate the bacteriological quality of water of Oued Hassar in relation to the wastewater of Mediouna’s location and also to apply a statistical analysis using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to correlate data of spatio-temporal variability of bacterial indicators with those of physical parameters (temperature, pH, electrical conductivity and turbidity). The average values obtained indicate that the water of this river contains a lot of amount of bacteria that indicates a faecal contamination. These values, for total coliforms, faecal coliforms and faecal Streptococci were hight and more than seven log10. Then the bacteriological quality of water of oued Hassar is classified in poor to very poor category. The Principal Component Analysis revealed that the indicator bacteria of faecal contamination presents negative correlations with the pH and the electrical conductivity, and positive correlations that are highly significant with turbidity.