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Received: January 25, 2016 Accepted: March 16, 2016 Online: June 30, 2016
Abstract Introduction
The present study was carried out on the Indira The Indira Gandhi Canal Project (IGNP) was
Gandhi Canal to evaluate the water quality with introduced for arid north-western part of
special reference to physico-chemical parameters Rajasthan to meet the demand for food
like pH, conductance, DO, BOD, COD, TA, production against the increasing population
TDS, TSS, TS, Total Hardness, Chloride growth. Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh
Content, Sulphate Content, Nitrate Content and districts fall within the project, and form large
Calcium Content for ten different sites of command area. These are the very productive
selected canal stretch. Average estimated values areas of Rajasthan, which has been famous for
are compared with BIS. The Comparison is high yields of wheat, rice and cotton after the
showing that all water quality parameters that are inception of lndira Gandhi Nahar Project (IGNP).
examined are above the BIS’s permissible limit. Along the irrigation the entire population of the
It figures out that it is not suitable for drinking both districts is depended upon the IGNP for
purpose and there is strong need forpreservation drinking water supply.
and monitoring of Indira Gandhi Canal water.
In the recent years it was observed that pollution
Keywords: IGCW | Physico-chemical Characters level in Indira Gandhi Canal has been raised due
to the freely discharge of industrial effluents and
municipal sewage to IGNP. So, IGNP water has
For correspondence: direct concern with the society and human health.
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Department of Botany, Tantia University, Sri Ganganagar
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Department of Environmental Science, MaharshiDayanand
Method and Material
College, Sri Ganganagar
E-mail: gurmeet.malhotra@gmail.com The grab samples were collected in thoroughly
cleaned polythene bottles once a month from
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each sampling site in between the Jan 2014 – Sampling Site-1 (GPS Cordinate-29.450815,
Dec. 2015. After taking the samples, they were 74.521113)
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Parameter/Site BIS Site-1 Site-2 Site-3 Site-4 Site-5 Site-6 Site-7 Site-8 Site-9 Site-10
pH 6.5-8.5 7.6 7.6 7.8 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.3
EC 50 420 410 380 380 370 340 340 315 310 310
DO (mg/l) 4-8 4.4 4.8 4.8 5.1 5.6 6.0 6.0 6.1 6.0 6.0
BOD (mg/l) 200 2100 2100 2000 1850 1700 1650 1520 1500 1500 1400
COD (mg/l) 300 2650 2650 2500 2350 2250 2150 2020 2000 2000 1900
Total Alkalinity 200 295 290 282 273 260 255 242 238 229 221
(mg/l)
TDS (mg/l) 500 2120 2090 2060 1990 1910 1800 1760 1720 1690 1650
TSS (mg/l) 200 1550 1440 1300 1210 1070 910 850 750 700 640
Chloride (mg/l) 250 530 615 690 720 750 805 845 850 850 860
Total Hardness 300 980 985 870 810 760 730 695 680 670 590
(mg/l)
Calcium (mg/l) 12 16 16 15 15 15 14 13 13 13 13
Magnesium 18 22 22 22 21 21 21 21 21 21 21
(mg/l)
Sulphate (mg/l) 200 253 245 244 236 231 225 226 218 217 217
Nitrate (mg/l) 45 62 62 62 61 61 60 59 59 59 59
Table-1: Showing the average magnitude of various
physico-chemical parameters in all sampling sites
Electronic Conductivity is the ability of a much higher from the BIS desirable limit. The
material in the water where these are present in high value of EC is indicating the high
the acidic forms, capable of conducting current availability of dissolved solids, which is due to
and therefore, conductivity is a good and rapid the low quantum of water and the ions coming
measure of the total dissolved solids. The through the drainage of sewage and industrial
conductivity fluctuated between 420-310 that effluents.
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Figure-5 Showing spatial variability in COD Figure-8 Showing spatial variability in TSS
among all sampling sites among all sampling sites
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