Study on Water quality status of Vishwamitri River in Vadodara
Keywords:
River water quality, Fresh water ,Domestic wastes,Industrial discharge , Contamination.Abstract
The river selected was studied with the regards to physical and chemical parameters and to know the
pollution increase over the years by comparing it with the other data. With this intention the analysis of
River Vishwamitri was carried out in the only river of Vadodara City. Four sampling stations were
selected and further were analyzed for standard parameters such as pH, Conductivity, Total Dissolved
Solids, Total Suspended Solids, Sodium, Potassium, Hardness, Acidity, Alkalinity, Chloride, TKN,
Sulphate, Nitrite-Nitrogen, Nitrate-Nitrogen, Phosphate, Ammonical Nitrogen, COD, BOD, DO,
Sulphide, and Phenolic compounds. The river water gets contaminated and the diseases occur by
consuming the river water and the pollution occurs due to domestic wastes, municipal sewage,
industrial discharges, hotel waste, agriculture run-off and plastics, etc. which influences the quality of
river water.
