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Assessment of Human Intervention on Ecology of River—A Case Study

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Recent Advances in Recycling Engineering (AIR 2021)

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Rivers being the natural resources, it is our duty to conserve them and protect them. But for protecting them we need to understand the parameters which are involved in polluting them. Ganges, being the holy river is mostly polluted. Hence, we need to protect it. Therefore, the need for the study is to revive the river ecology by converting them into a scientific method that will protect the river ecology. This study aims to assess the river Ganga's variations in water quality from Rishikesh to Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. The data is collected from the five different sites lying in the route of Rishikesh to Haridwar. A scientific investigation was conducted in order to determine the influence of human interference in the ecology of river Ganga. Tapovan (Site-1), Raiwala (Site-2), Bhimgoda (Site-3), Devpura (Site-4) and Jagjeetpur (Site-5) were selected as the study and sampling sites which gives an indication of stricter implementation, management, monitoring and strengthening public awareness to safeguard river Ganga water quality.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Kanya Gurukula Campus, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to be University), Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

    Damini Rana & Namita Joshi

  2. Central Laboratory, Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board, Dehradun, India

    Damini Rana

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    N. A. Siddiqui

  2. Department of Hydromelioration, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanisation Engineers, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    Akmalov Shamshodbek Baxtiyarovich

  3. School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Abhishek Nandan

  4. School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Prasenjit Mondal

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Rana, D., Joshi, N. (2023). Assessment of Human Intervention on Ecology of River—A Case Study. In: Siddiqui, N.A., Baxtiyarovich, A.S., Nandan, A., Mondal, P. (eds) Recent Advances in Recycling Engineering . AIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 275. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3931-0_4

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