Ecobiology of Polluted Waters
Contents: Preface. 1. Status of freshwater in India: a review/Arvind Kumar and Chandan Bohra. 2. Hydrochemical studies on Suvarnamukhi sub-basin of Arkavathi river, Bangalore district, Karnataka/H.C. Vajrappa and N. Rajdhan Singh. 3. Prediction of Nitrate pollution of groundwater: a case study/Sarbjit Singh Sooch, Baljeet S. Kapoor, Bijay Singh and N.S. Grewal. 4. Mining initiatives for placer deposits along the east coast of India: a preliminary assessment of possible impact on coastal environment/M. Jagannadha Rao, J. Venkata Ramana and M. Chandra Rao. 5. Influence of thermal stratification on dissolved oxygen in Subhas Sarobar, Kolkata/N.R. Samal, D. Roy, A. Mazumdar and B. Bose. 6. Pollution of drinking water by Iron in tribal area of Sundargarh district, Orissa: a guide to community health workers and non-government organizations/P.C. Sahu and H.K. Sahoo. 7. Microbial contamination in drinking water: cause, detection and remedy/M.K. Bhutra and Ambica Soni. 8. Pollution impact on the hydrobiology of river Nakatia at Bareilly/Neelima Gupta, V.K. Verma and D.K. Gupta. 9. Status of drinking water quality awareness and its impact on student health: a study of schools of Buldana district/S.V. Agarkar and B.S. Thombre. 10. Analysis and seasonal comparative study of Amanishah Nallah and neighbouring ground water sources in Sanganer town, Jaipur/Dinesh Kumar, Hari Singh Shivran, Mahavir Prasad and R.V. Singh. 11. A study on groundwater quality in residential colonies of Visakhapatnam/T. Usha Madhuri and B. Subhashini. 12. Relation between COD and BOD in Sewage and groundwater samples around Nasik city/S.P. Wagh and V.S. Shrivastava. 13. Software development on groundwater quality of Chengalpattu environs, Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu (GQS)/R. Annadurai and P. Kamaraj. 14. Soil and groundwater pollution by agrochemicals: a review/D.S. Kler, Navneet Kaur and R.S. Uppal. 15. Groundwater quality index near industrial area/Deepali A. Sohani, G.R. Chaudhary and V.S. Shrivastava. 16. Studies on primary productivity of a Wetland/O.P. Mandal, A.K. Sinha and K.M.P. Sinha. 17. Seasonal fluctuation of primary production in bonal reservoir, Gulbarga district, Karnataka/H. Anjinappa and K. Vijaykumar. 18. Study on Zooplankton diversity in relation to some hydrological parameters in a freshwater pond ecosystem/C. Maruthanayagam, S. Radja Piragache and C. Senthil Kumar. 19. Water quality profile of man-khad stream in outer Himalayas/Er. Moti Ram Sharma. 20. Status of fisheries resources in selected backwaters of Kerala/P.K. Sukumaran and V.K. Unnithan. 21. The benthic and littoral fauna of a perennial polluted tank in Bangalore/P.K. Sukumaran. 22. Ecological imbalance by reservoirs/V. Srihari and C.R. Suribabu. 23. Studies on limnological characteristics of Guruvayanakere Pond near Belthangady, S.K. district/B.A. Kumara Hegde, G. Suresha, K. Ramadas and B. Yashovarma. 24. Diel variation in waterfowl during winter at Sirpur tank, Indore/Manjeet Malhotra, M.M. Prakash and K. Pawar. 25. Physico-chemical characteristics of wastewater from Bakelite manufacturing industry/V. Arutchelvan, V.K. Kanakasabai, R. Elangovan and S. Nagarajan. 26. Limnological studies of Potsangban river, Manipur/Laishram Kosygin and Haobijam Dhamendra. 27. Water quality management for Jagath tank, Gulbarga, India: a case study/K. Vijaykumar, Shashikanth Majagi, B. Vasanthkumar and Murali Jadesh. 28. Seasonal variations in species composition of aquatic Hyphomycetes in two temperate streams/S.C. Sati and N. Tiwari. 29. Assessment of groundwater quality in Visakhapatnam area, Andhra Pradesh, India/Y. Prasanna Kumar and P. King. 30. Effects of polluted water irrigation on Hemagglutination and thermal stability of Pissum Sativum Lectin/R.B. Lal and K.D. Saxena. 31. An assessment of water quality of river Cauvery at Mettur, Salem district, Tamil Nadu in relation to pollution/V. Mathivanan, P. Vijayan and Selvi Sabhanayakam. 32. Study of the influence of aquaculture development on environment: a remote sensing approach/P. Venkateswarlu, M.V. Rao, Kiran and Ramamohan. Index.
"The aim of this book is to provide a wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of water pollution, which is fundamental to our understanding and appreciation of the nature of aquatic environment. The book will be very much helpful for students, research scholars, professors, scientists and policy makers in order to provide a sufficient depth of the subject to satisfy the needs at a level which will be comprehensive and interesting." (jacket)
