Plant Archives Vol. 20, No. 1, 2020 pp. 201-206 e-ISSN:2581-6063 (online), ISSN:0972-5210 EVALUATION OF PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF BOTTLED WATER MARKETED IN BABEL GOVERNORATE: IRAQ Zaid B. Hameed, Sundus S. Nehaba, Alaa A. Obayes and Abbas T. Khlaif Environmental sciences college, Al-Qasim Green University. Iraq. Abstract Consume bottled water has been expanded consistently over the last years, even in the countries with good quality of tap water. This study included the tested some physical and chemical properties of locally and most distribution bottled water in Babel city. The study included ten samples of local bottled water from different manufacturing (L 1 to L 10 ) and one sample of imported bottled water (F). The physical and chemicals properties such as(pH, TDS, TH, Cl, Na + , K + , Ca +2 , Mg +2 , NO 3 , and SO 4 ) were tested according to the standard method, the result showed that the values of characteristics (pH, TDS, TH, and Cl) were less than the maximum allowable limits in Iraqi and IBWA standard. While the concentration of Ca +2 and Mg +2 were less than the allowable limits in Iraqi standard and there is no pacify value for these parameters in IBWA standard. And the nitrate and sulphate concentration not more than the maximum allowable limits for both standard, and the Na + concentration limited to no more than 100 mg/l. also the potassium concentration in all sample were very low except the sample (L 2 & L 10 ). Also the result shows there was difference in the physical and chemicals properties of two samples of product and there was difference between the standard of packaging and the result of samples tested. Key words : Bottled water, locally and imported bottled water, physical and chemical parameters, water quality. Introduction Water is beneficial resource for domestic, industrial and agricultural purposes and rich in nature occupying 71% of the earth surface (Peter, 2006). Drinking water is chief for existence, and biological and chemical contamination is a serious matter that may have serious health effects. The available drinking water would need sequence of treatments before it could be harmless or right for drinking, Bottled water is only dependable healthy drinking water in any parts of the globe (Catherine, 2013). It is usually accepted as drinkable and thereby free from physical, chemical and microbial contaminants that could initiate hostile health effects in humans when consumed therefore, Bottled waters are becoming increasingly popular worldwide. packaged drinking water is any water that is in a closed plastic and dispersed or offered for sale and is intended for human drinking. As a protective measure, consumption of packaged drinking water has increased in recent years in developing countries. The sale and consumption of packaged drinking water stays to raise rapidly in most of the developing countries of the world. In order to protection public health it is vital that the available packaged water is of the highest quality. There is a worldwide be anxious over the quality of water from tap, due to pollution, biological contamination, and the related taste and odor (Saleh et al., 2001); therefore, people turned to bottled water for safity and quality features in order that, the bottled water in a giant global market was rising continuously to meet the rise in demand and the examiner for good quality drinking water (Mahajan et al., 2006). Water quality is recognized as the most significant subject, not only related to users and their supplies, but also to the safety of the water resources and the environment (Benedini and Tsakiris, 2013). The assessment of water quality is a hard duty due to the many factors involved in its characterization. This difficulty was recognized and led to offers for accepting simplified approaches, such as the water quality indices (Tyagi et al., 2013). The global use of bottled water was set from 130,956 million liters in 2002 to 188,777 million liters in 2007. Thus, the average annual global drinking rate is 28.8 liters per capita in 2007 (BMC, 2008).