Assessment of Surface Water Quality Using Qual2k Software: A Case Study of River Yamuna, India

ABSTRACT

In current years, water quality degradation related with rapid socio-economic development in the River Yamuna, India has attracted increasing attention from both public and Indian government. The principal sources of pollution in River Yamuna are effluent discharge from the industries and domestic sewage. The effective water environmental management strategies required to be implement in this river to upgrade the water quality and to ensure sustainable development in the region. The aim of this work was to provide a basis for water environmental management in process of making important decisions. In this study Qual2k is used as model to identify the processes that underlie river and stream water quality problems in a basin. This will be applied to predict the water quality parameters such as Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and pH and the most sensitive parameter of the model that influence Yamuna River. The scope of the research is from Delhi Stretch of Wazirabad to Oklah route of the river.

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