Water Quality Status of River Sabarmati within Ahmedabad City

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Srivastava, V.K. | Pathak, Chintan

Affiliations: Department of Sciences, School of Technology Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar – 382007, India

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: vks1_99@yahoo.com, vijay.srivastava@spt.pdpu.ac.in

Abstract: With the rise of the environmental protection movement, greater emphasis has been given to the water quality safeguarding in terms of minimizing water pollution and thereby reducing the environmental impact to nature. The contamination and availability of clean water plays an important role in meeting the demand of domestic, industry and agriculture. The fresh river water is depleting at a much faster rate. The study aims at the assessment of water quality of the river Sabarmati within Ahmedabad city. Total six sampling stations have been selected for river water sample collection. Various parameters like pH, TDS, DO, BOD and TC were being analyzed as per the prescribed method of GPCB. Discussion also emphasises on the toxicological impacts of various pollutants to the human health as well as environment and minimizes potential environmental impacts of them. From this study, we concluded that the water quality of river Sabarmati is getting contaminated with impurities and it requires certain water treatments so that it can be directly used for drinking purpose although it is found suitable for agricultural purpose.

Keywords: Water quality, physico-chemical and biological parameters, environmental impact, river Sabarmati, Ahmedabad city

Journal: Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 85-90, 2012