Abstract

Water is an important component to human life. The major aims of the present work are to assess the quality of the water from the selected site. The present limnological investigations include analysis of various physico chemical parameters at the selected sites of Vikram Tearth Sarovar Ujjain (M.P) from Jan 2018 to Dec 2018. The present study focuses to bring awareness among the people about the quality of water by taking water samples from various locations for Physico – Chemical analysis of the water. This analysis result was compared with the WHO, ICMR, and European standards of drinking water quality parameters with the following water quality parameters namely Air Temperature, pH, Dissolved oxygen, B.O.D, Nitrate and Phosphate. Various chemical methods have been employed to investigate the extent level of pollution in selected water body from Ujjain. The mean air temperature ranged from 28.8℃  2.1 to minimum 20.0℃  3.0. The pH of the selected water body was alkaline throughout the study period. The Water in Vikram Tearth Sarovar was typically hard water type. The DO (3.8 0.2) was minimum during summers and maximum (5.1 0.5) during winter season. High mean values of Nitrate (6.6561.56) and Phosphate (1.0640.1) were recorded during summers. The mean BOD (12.71.6) in Vikram Tearth Sarovar was maximum during summer season. The high values of the physico chemical parameters of water were recorded in the present study in Vikram Tearth Sarovar Ujjain during the year 2018 (Jan to Dec) indicating the eutrophic nature of the pond due to increased anthropogenic activities. Thus measures need to be enforced to reduce the rate of pollution of the selected water body arising from the anthropogenic activities in the catchment of the reservoir.

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