Evaluation of Water Quality of Malini River in Kotdwar Uttarakhand

Authors: Kavita Sharma, Dr Satyendra Kumar

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Abstract: Malini river originates from the Kotdwar and merges with Ganga at Ravalli Ghat in Dist. Bijnor. It is an important river of city Najibabad, Uttar Pradesh because it is the main source of irrigation for agriculture in the most areas of city Najibabad. At some places cloth washing and vegetable washing is the main activity on the Malini river bank. Four sampling sites were established for the collection of water samples during July, 2019 to June, 2020 but in the present study average of all the values of all the four sites was given. Monitoring of water of river Malini includes physio-chemical parameters like temperature, turbidity, total solids, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, pH, total hardness, calcium hardness, magnesium hardness, total alkalinity, chloride, acidity., dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand and chemical oxygen demand. TDS, total hardness, calcium hardness and magnesium hardness was found beyond the limit at all the four sampling sites and rest all the parameters were found within the limit. The average values of TDS, BOD, COD and TH were observed 635.1 mg/l±55.31, 12.1±0.54, 35.2±1.01, 341.0±1.84. Further water quality of river Malini has been assessed using water quality index and the quality of river Malini was observed to be bad at all site which may be attributed to untreated and/or partially treated waste inputs of municipal and industrial effluents joining the river.

Keywords: Soil Quality, Microbial Diversity, Turbidity Malini River, Non-perennial, Ravalli Ghat, WQI

Paper Id: 2.39

Published On: 2021-09-10

Published In: Special Issue - Rishi's Online National Conference on "Management Perspectives for Quality Outlook in the Post COVID Era" (September 2021)

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