Title
Authors
Monika Bhaskar1, Ashwini Kumar Dixit1, Kundan Kumar Ojha1, Satish Dubey1, Akanksha Singh1 and Amar Abhishek1,2
Affiliation
1School of Life Sciences, Department of Botany, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur-495009, Chhattisgarh, India; 2King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, 226003;
Amar Abhishek - Email: drabhi000bharat@gmail.com; *Corresponding author:
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received February 27, 2020; Revised April 1, 2020; Accepted April 4, 2020; Published April 30, 2020
Abstract
In the name of development, industries discharge their wastewater, which contains different Metallic species and massive organic load into the next-door river system. In this study, we assess the impact of organic and inorganic contaminations on Hasdeo River at Korba region, which is fifth critically polluted city in India. Hear, a new approach for water quality indexing like Water quality index (WQI), Heavy metal pollution index (HPI) and metal index (MI) has been proposed to represent pollution due to heavy metals in river system. The sample’s pollution parameters and heavy metals contamination is exceed from BIS or WHO standards of drinking water (all p<0.05). WQI shows that the entire water samples are not suitable for drinking and aquatic life but they are safe only for irrigation. HPI and MI calculation revels that more than 95% sampling sites are critically polluted with heavy metals. Thus, a high level of industrialization deterioration of river water quality is recorded for adequate action.
Keywords
Hasdeo River; heavy metals; water quality index (WQI); heavy metal pollution index (HPI); metal index (MI).
Citation
Bhaskar et al. 332-340 (2020)
Edited by
P Kangueane
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
