Survey on River Periyar For the Determination and Analysis of Pollution Rates

Author(s): Vani Venugopal, Akhila Rupesh

Abstract: Water is an unavoidable need in our life. Now a day’s water gets more polluted. Most of the rivers, ponds, streams etc. are polluted due to the deposition of industrial wastes, wastes from shops and other domestic wastes. Latest studies show that the water quality and self-purifying capacity decreasing day by day. This paper is based on a survey done to analyze the water pollution level of the river Periyar done randomly at five different sampling points for the various parameter.