Asessmesnt of Water Quality of Rapti River Gorakhpur, India

EasyChair Preprint no. 5284

Abstract

Gorakhpur is situated from bank of Rapti River. Rapti River is joined at Sohgaura with Ami River which is highly polluted as compare to Rapti River. Rapti River has a confluence into Ghaghra River at Kaparwar Ghat. The present study is conducted to determine the water quality of Rapti River using physical and Chemical parameters including pH, Turbidity, Total dissolved solids, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), and Total Hardness by collecting Three sets of samples from five locations from December, 2020 to February, 2021. The results obtained by standard methods were compared with water quality criteria prescribed by Indian Standard/Central Pollution Control Board. The study also reveals that the water quality of Rapti River is highly deteriorated due to anthropogenic activities such as urbanization, construction activities, agricultural activities, discharge of untreated sewage and disposal of solid wastes into river.

Keyphrases: Physio-chemical parameters, Rapti River, water quality analysis

@Booklet{EasyChair:5284,
  author = {Divya Yadav and Govind Pandey},
  title = {Asessmesnt of Water Quality of Rapti River Gorakhpur, India},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 5284},

  year = {EasyChair, 2021}}