Physico-Chemical Characteristics of a Fresh Water Pond of Ghugus, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra (India)
Keywords:
Physico-chemicals, Malgujari Talav, pollution, pH, TDS, DO, BODAbstract
Water is the most necessary component for the living beings. Life on the earth is never possible without water. Water is one of the most vital elements for the human environments. It is being used for many purposes e.g. Industrial water supply, drinking, irrigation, propagation of fish and other aquatic systems and generation of hydro-power plants. Water is the main source of energy and governs the evolution on the earth. 71.9 % of earth surface is covered with water (CIA, 2008), out of which, 96.5% of the world’s water is sea water which is salty that is not to be directly useful for irrigation, drinking, domestic and industrial purposes.1.7% is in groundwater and 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps. Less than 1% water is present in ponds, lakes, rivers, dams, etc., which is used by human beings for drinking, industrial , domestic and agricultural purposes. According to an estimate about 70% of all the available water in our country is polluted due to the discharge of effluents from the industries, domestic waste, land and agricultural drainage (Shrivastava and Kanungo, 2013). In the present study an attempt has been made on physico-chemical characteristics of a pond, located in Ghugus Town in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. The study was carried out for a period of twelve months i.e. November 2014 to October 2015. Monthly details have been collected and were represented seasonally along with standard deviation. Different parameters were taken in the study were Humidity, Atmospheric and water temperature, pH, Electrical Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids, Dissolved oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Total alkalinity, Bicarbonate Alkalinity, Total Hardness, Calcium Hardness, Chloride, Nitrate-Nitrogen and Phosphate. The results of the present study indicated that the water of the pond lies just below the level of eutrophication.
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