Water Quality Assessment of Riverine in Baddi Himachal Pradesh

Abstract

If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water, as it is very essential to life and newlineinfluences human health and living standards. Water is driving force of nature and is newlinevital for all forms of life. Water plays very important role in the world economy. In India newlinewater is one of the most selling products. Water covers 71% of earth s surface and 97% newlineof earths water is available in oceans, only 3% of earths water is fresh water. The way newlinepopulation is increasing the need of water is also increasing. Due to accelerating human newlineactivities our water resources are decreasing and deteriorating consistently. About 2.2 newlinebillion people means more than a quarter of the world s population don t have access to newlineclean drinking water. This is the high time to conserve, replenish and save water newlineresources for current and future generations. newlineThe present investigation is regarding the water quality assessment of riverine in Baddi newlinearea of Himachal Pradesh for the duration of one year. Baddi is Asia s largest pharma newlinemanufacturing and RandD hub and home of many industries. The rising unplanned newlineindustrialization and their muted and fragile governance system adding toxic pollutants newlinewhich intensely contaminate the water resources of the area, therefore the rivers and newlineriverine of Baddi area are degrading gradually. So, waterfront offers another bleak newlinelandscape that gives rise to the concept of DYING WATER. This study highlights the newlinecontamination of water in four riverine of the area: Balad, Ratta, Manpura and Bagbania; newlinecontributing to water pollution because maximum industries are being situated around newlinethe banks of those riverine. Based on water pollution and their sources of contamination, newlinethe twelve sampling stations (three from each riverine) were selected and twenty-one newlinephysico-chemical variables including physical parameters, non-metals, metals, heavy newlinemetals and biological parameters were analyzed for spring, summer, monsoon and winter newlineseason.