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Quality of water is an important aspect for drinking and  other  related  requirement.  Water  has been  the  most  exploited natural resource due  to  ever increasing  demand  of man for  food,  cloth,  industrialization.  In  the present  study effect  of sugar effluent on water quality  at  given  region  in two  seasonal conditions  i.e. pre  rainy season  and post  rainy season  and the sampled data was analyzed  separately  for  pH,  Total  dissolved  solid  (TDS),  Nitrate,  Phosphate,  Dissolved  oxygen (DO), Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and Chemical oxygen Demand (COD) and  followed by  G.I.S.  to  develop respective  maps.   It was  found  that  the  pH  value  was  alkaline  in  pre rainy  season and  slightly acidic  in post  rainy season. TDS was found high in 66% area during pre rainy season and 74.6% in post rainy season above permissible limit .  In pre  rainy season 83.4% area  and  in post rainy season 98.4%  area  contains high electrical conductivity .In pre  rainy season BOD was found more than 6mg/l in 80.9%  in  pre  rainy season and in  84.2% area  in  post rainy season. COD was found above prescribed limit (>10mg/l) in 59.5%area  in  pre  rainy season  and  in  93.6%  area  in post rainy  season  33.3% area contain high  phosphate  in pre  rainy season 46.03%  area  contains high  phosphate  in post rainy season .Nitrate  was found in permissible limit in pre rainy season 46.6% area was found to contain nitrate in post rainy season 7.1% of the geographical area is having fluoride concentration  more  than  1.5mg/l  and  28.5%  area  is  having fluoride  concentration below the normal limit .Thus   35.6% of total area is not suitable for drinking purpose.6.34% area contain fluoride above prescribed  limit

Keywords

Dissolved oxygen BOD COD GIS

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Awasthi, G., Kumar, V., Chandra, H., Singh, A., & Mathur, A. (2006). Impact of sugar industries of kushinagar district (U.P.) on water quality: Using remote sensing and Geographical information System (GIS). Environment Conservation Journal, 7(3), 43–50. https://doi.org/10.36953/ECJ.2006.070307

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