Temporal and Spatial Assessment of water quality of major rivers of Uttrakhand Impact of Sewage and Industrial Effluent

Abstract

High relief, tectonic disturbance and large scale newlinehuman interventions may be responsible for higher sediment load in Indian rivers newlineand thus result in high TDS and TSS which simultaneously could be the region newlinefor positive correlation of EC with metals in the present study. All metals showed newlinepositive correlation with each other in the present study. Lead showed strong newlinepositive correlation with Cu and Fe, where Cu and Fe itself strongly positive newlinecorrelated. newlineData were alanysed stastically by using ANNOVA on MS EXCEL and it was newlinefound that Distribution of Fe in river Yamuna System and Zn in Kumaon rivers. during the four seasons is significantly difference at 90% level of significance. newlineHowever all the metals in different river systems not show and significant newlinedifference temporally even at 95% level of significance. Spatially all the metals newlinehave shown very significant difference in their distribution amongst different river newlinesystems. newline