Estimation of Surface Water Hydrochemical Pollution Due to Pilgrimage Tourism in Regions of Pamba River Basin

Rengith R Pillai  lowast

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v13i2.pillai

Year: 2024, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-5

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Estimation of Surface Water Hydrochemical Pollution Due to Pilgrimage Tourism in Regions of Pamba River Basin

Rengith R Pillai^1∗

¹Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Ernakulam, 683574, Kerala, India

^∗Corresponding author
Email: [email protected]

Received Date:18 September 2024, Accepted Date:20 December 2024

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Water pollution is a state of deviation from the pure condition, where the normal conditions of the chemical property of the water get changed by the addition of foreign contaminant. The presence of these materials lowers the quality of water and results in its depletion causing health hazards. Bacteria, protozoans, and other microorganisms which get injected by means of dumping of waste materials causing to higher contamination. River monitoring is an integral part of the present world because of the greater human population. Proper analysis of the water quality provides a detailed structure of the condition of the water body which affects the entire ecosystem. The present study was conducted in selected portion of the Pamba River which comes under the study area, to monitors the level of water pollution and its impact using various chemical parameters. The main aim and objective of the present study is to inverse distance weighted (IDW) method has been used to represent the parameters. The varying quality of aquatic ecosystem is dependent on the physical, chemical qualities of water and also on biological diversity of the entire system. The derived result brings out the alarming rate of water degradation due to the improper waste management, impact of tourism etc.

Keywords: Pamba, Water Quality, Geoinformatics, IDW

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