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Analyzing the Status of Heavy Metals in Irrigation Water in Suburban Areas of Bahawalpur City, Pakistan
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Mass scale industrial development lead to urbanizations which is thought to be a major problems of air, water and soil pollution ultimately retard the life standards as well as socio-economics of the country. Keeping in view these environmental degrading facts, the present study was designed to evaluate the quality of sewage effluents and canal water used for irrigation purpose. For this purpose, two sampling sites, i.e. study site 1 (Village Bindra) and study site 2 (Jhangiwala), were selected to collect the water samples for analyzing the irrigation water quality through physical characters, cation & anion (rneql-1) concentrations and four heavy metals (ppm). According to the results the chemical quality of sewage effluent with respect to EC, SAR,RSC, cations and anions was not satisfactory. The concentration of heavy metals i.e., Pb and Hg was above the NEQS directed permissible limit for sewage effluent being used for irrigation purpose, while Ni and As were found in the safe limits. Concentration of heavy metals in canal water were also not satisfactory, as all the samples contained heavy metals above the safe limits set for ideal water use for irrigation purpose. In conclusion it is recommend to control the industrial discharge program to check the excessive amounts of different salts including heavy metals to the agricultural fields.
PollutionHeavy metalsUrbanizationEnvironmentSewage waterCanal water
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