Variation of Surface Water Quality in an Urban Vegetated Canal

Abstract

Water is one of the fundamental elements for living organisms, without water we cannot think of our life. As pure water can save the earth, on the contrary contaminated water is like a slow poison. It is poisoning the whole world slowly. Our surface water is contaminating day by day and industrial effluents are presenting a major role in it. In our country it's more conspicuous. This effluent contains carcinogenic matter and causes cancer on the living body. So, this matter should be highly focused on and decreased as much as possible. Again, it can meet the water demand by recycling and reusing this water. Constructed wetland process of wastewater treatment uses natural plants to take up the pollutants and thus treat the wastewater naturally. This canal with wastewater effluents has a lot of plants like a wetland and hence water samples were collected along this canal to test the pollution parameters to check whether the level of pollution reduces along the flow. Besides all the testing procedures, parameters collected and tested from different spots, and the results have been thoroughly mentioned in this report.