Water quality assessment of River Nile has been studied in the Upper Egypt region between April 2011 and March 2012 to detect the correlation between physicochemical parameters and microbiological characteristics. Thirty six water samples

Hundred and thirty eight (138) bacteria were isolated from 3 different areas on Red Sea governorate, Egypt. Among these

138 moderately halophilic isolates, 2.17%, 3.6%, 6.5%, 9.4%, and 7.2% of the isolates were resistant up to 5mM Cd