Assessment of Water Pollution

Contents: Preface. 1. Problems and prospects of water pollution. 2. Waterborne infectious diseases: water pollution study. 3. Assessment of water pollution: sewage pollution and its management. 4. Use of reliable biotool for evaluation of river water quality. 5. A practical approach to water pollution control through ecologically balanced waste water management: a case study from Calcutta--India. 6. The zooplankton of Indian rivers: a review. 7. Impact of wastewater discharge on living biota especially fish kills. 8. Assessment of water pollution of rivers by algal analysis. 9. Fungal populations in aquatic habitats with rich suspended organic matter. 10. Ecological studies of periphyton in two lakes of Kashmir Himalaya. 11. Influence of mercury on fish and aquatic ecosystem. 12. Ecology of lithophytic algae and pollution of an Ephemeral River. 13. Acid mine drainage in surface coal mining: ecological hazards and control measures. 14. Macrozoobenthos of two tropical freshwater carp culture ponds under variable management techniques. 15. Effect of fluoride on lipid and cholesterol levels in freshwater crab, Barytelphusa cunicularis from Dhule. 16. Species diversity of Benthic macroinvertebrates in assessing the pollutional level of river Ganga at Patna (Bihar), India. 17. Risk management of environmental hazards due to polluted materials. 18. Phytoplankton ecology of the river Krishna in Maharashtra with reference to bioindicators of pollution. 19. Germicidal efficiency of some water disinfectants. 20. Toxicity of ammonia and nitrite to Daphnia magna: alteration in aliesterase activity (Ali-E). 21. The study of seasonal parameters of water in Hanumantal Lake of Jabalpur. 22. Diurnal variation in sewage polluted pool zone of the river Narmada. 23. An overview on Indian wetlands. 24. Trophic structure of Benthic community in some typical wetlands of Kashmir Himalaya. 25. Toxicity of two insecticides, metacid and ekalux to fingerlings of Labeo rohita. 26. Computation of log-probit analysis for bioassay. 27. Individual and combined effects of carbaryl and methyl parathion on Leucocytes and their recovery in Heteropneustes fossilis. 28. Variations in the water quality of a high altitude river of Garhwal Himalaya, India. 29. Toxicity of Phosphamidon to a catfish Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch). 30. Correlation among the physico-chemical characteristics of pond water (Mehta pond, Jhabua). 31. Impact of sewage and industrial pollution on physico-chemical characteristics of water in river Betwa at Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. 32. Incidence of indicator bacteria in different drinking water sources. Appendices. Index.

"The book provides thirty two research articles and reviews on pollution and ecological problems of various aquatic environment namely rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ponds etc., their fauna, flora, production potential and impact of pollutants i.e urban sewage, industrial effluents, organic wastes insecticides and pesticides etc. on them.

This book will be very useful publication for limnologists, aquaculturists and post graduate students of ecology and environmental sciences in various respects." (jacket)