DETERMINING PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF SPRING MINERAL WATER OF WURA, AWI ZONE, AMHARA NATIONAL REGIONAL STATE OF ETHIOPIA.

<strong>ABSTRAC</strong>: All living organisms on the earth need water for their survival and growth. The accessibility and availability of good quality drinking water plays the most important role in both social and economic development. The spring mineral water is characterized by its constant mineral content and its purity at source. This work focused on analysis of physical and chemical parameters, concentration of heavy metals, cations and anions in spring mineral water and compare with labeled availably community consumed mineral water in the country and world health organization standards. The samples of spring mineral water was prepared by standard method. The concentration of some selected cations and anions are measured by FAAS. The pH is measured by pH meter. The spring mineral water of the study has significant amount useful minerals and its pH is 6.8. The average level of Na+, K+, Mg+2, Ca+2,Cl-, NO3- and TDs are 189±1.4, 21.8±0.6, 37±2.9, 52.3±3.6, 46.5±1.7,14.2±0.62 and 500mg/L respectively. The chemical parameters and physical parameters of the spring mineral water under study comply with WHO standard. Therefore, the spring mineral water would be bottled and marketed .It can also be promoted and used locally. This shows the spring resource from study area plays the most important role in both social and economic development.