Article ; Online: Cleaning the river Damodar (India): impact of COVID-19 lockdown on water quality and future rejuvenation strategies.
Environment, development and sustainability
2021 Volume 23, Issue 8, Page(s) 11975–11989
Abstract: ... industrial effluents and urban sewage. The main objective of this study is to examine the water quality of river ... West Bengal state of India but in the recent years the water quality has been deteriorated due to untreated ... of environment. The river Damodar has historical significance and lifeline for huge population of Jharkhand and ...
| Abstract | Globally, it is established that the partial lockdown system assists to improve the health of the total environment due to inadequate anthropogenic actions in different economic sectors. The ample research on fitness of environment has been proved that the strict imposition of lockdown was the blessings of environment. The river Damodar has historical significance and lifeline for huge population of Jharkhand and West Bengal state of India but in the recent years the water quality has been deteriorated due to untreated industrial effluents and urban sewage. The main objective of this study is to examine the water quality of river Damodar during and prelockdown phase for domestic use and restoration of river ecosystem. A total of eleven (11) effluent discharge sites were selected in prelockdown and during lockdown phase. A new approach of water quality assessment, i.e., water pollution index (WPI) has been applied in this study. WPI is weightage free, unbiased method to analysis of water quality. The result shows that the physical, chemical and heavy elements were found beyond the standard limit in prelockdown period. The cation and anion were arranged in an order of Na |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-01-03 |
| Publishing country | Netherlands |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2015291-7 |
| ISSN | 1573-2975 ; 1387-585X |
| ISSN (online) | 1573-2975 |
| ISSN | 1387-585X |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10668-020-01152-8 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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