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Water pollution of Sabarmati River—a Harbinger to potential disaster

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Title Water pollution of Sabarmati River—a Harbinger to potential
disaster
 
Creator Haldar, Soumya
Mandal, Subir Kumar
Thorat, R B
Goel, Sangita
Baxi, Krushnakant D
Parmer, Navalsang P
Patel, Vipul
Basha, S
Mody, K H
 
Subject Environmental Pollution
 
Description River Sabarmati is one of the biggest and major
river of Gujarat that runs through two major cities of
Gujarat, Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad and finally meets
the Gulf of Khambhat (GoK) in the Arabian Sea. A study
was conducted to evaluate the water quality of this river, as
it could possibly be one of the major sources for filling up
Kalpasar, the proposed man-made freshwater reservoir
supposed to be the biggest one in the world. A total of
nine sampling stations were established covering 163 km
stretch of the river from upstream of Gandhinagar city to
Vataman near Sabarmati estuary. Physicochemical
(temprature, pH, salinity, chloride, total dissolved solids,
turbidity, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand,
phenol, and petroleum hydrocarbons), biological (phytoplankton), and microbiological (total and selective
bacterial count) analyses indicated that the river stretch
from Ahmedabad-Vasana barriage to Vataman was highly
polluted due to perennial waste discharges mainly from
municipal drainage and industries. An implementation of
sustainable management plan with proper treatment of
both municipal and industrial effluents is essential to prevent further deterioration of the water quality of this river.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2014-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/848/1/2014-sabarmati-final.pdf
Haldar, Soumya and Mandal, Subir Kumar and Thorat, R B and Goel, Sangita and Baxi, Krushnakant D and Parmer, Navalsang P and Patel, Vipul and Basha, S and Mody, K H (2014) Water pollution of Sabarmati River—a Harbinger to potential disaster. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 186 (4). pp. 2231-2242. ISSN 0167-6369, ESSN: 1573-2959
 
Relation https://link.springer.com/journal/10661
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