impact of seasonal variation on invertebrates in river ganga in kanpur

Abstract

Water is one of the nature s most important gifts to mankind. It is essential and most newlineprecious commodity for life. Our natural heritage like rivers, seas and oceans has been newlineexploited, mistreated and contaminated. Water is one of the basic needs of the newlinemankind and is a vital resource used for various activities such as drinking, irrigation, newlinefish production, industrial cooling, power generation and many other activities. It is newlineimportant to systematically study the status of pollution of the rivers in relation to newlinevarious anthropogenic activities as river water has been used as drinking water, for newlinemankind. Pollution is the creation of wastes by man s activity and Nature s inability newlineto absorb it. Increased human Activities over the recent past years are imposing a newlinegreater stress on these ecosystems, resulting in changing their features. There is a newlineprogressive Deterioration of water quality throughout the world. The causative factors newlineresponsible for degradation of water quality need to be evaluated so as to take proper newlinesteps before the situation becomes worst and uncontrollable. The Ganga is one of the newlineimportant rivers of North India. Due to abundant availability of water throughout the newlineyear, it has played an important role in the development of Indian civilization and newlineeconomy. newline