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The monitoring of pesticide residual levels was done is reservoir water, mud, zooplankton, live and dead fish muscle and gill tissue for a period from November 1976 to January 1978. Using electron capture detector, both organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticide residues have been detected in the Sathiar Ecosystem. Although in nanogram levels they have shown a general increase in the course of one year. Of the former group, BHC appeared to persist undergraded than DDT in the fish muscle. With reference to DDT and DDE it is the latter which has registered increased levels in soil, water and fish. Endrin was detected only in water. The organophosphorus pesticides represented by parathion appears only in traces in the water as flood water fills Sathiar resorvoir and is degraded completely (possibly as phenolic compounds) and utilised.
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Kannan, V., Job, S.V. Studies on the residual levels of pesticide pollution in the sathiar reservoir. J. Radioanal. Chem. 53, 247–253 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02517924
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