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Investigation of Organic Carbon Contamination in Himalayan Rivers of Uttarakhand

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Advances in Waste Management (AIR 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ((LNCE,volume 301))

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The Himalayan state of Uttarakhand is vulnerable to ongoing changes which are either climate changes or continuous migration activities. This is a newly formed state and somehow unstable with respect to developmental projects. Rivers originating from Himalayas are facing the issues of deteriorating water quality day by day. River Ganga originating from Uttarakhand holds a National religious importance as well as being the lifeline to various organisms. But, according to previous studies, river quality is noticed to be affected due to natural and anthropogenic activities. This paper focuses on the pollution by organic carbon, in the Uttarakhand region of river Ganga and its tributaries. Therefore, the work aims to measure the Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in the respective river using TOC Analyser. Four different locations such as Gangotri, Nandprayag, Srinagar and Rishikesh are considered as the river water sampling sites. High concentration of carbon was observed in Nandprayag region though it has very less population in comparison to Rishikesh. Conclusion of the study shows, though anthropogenic activities affect the quality of river water but the total flow of river is equally important to maintain the healthy ecological activities in it. Also, the values of TOC in the river at the Gangotri region with very less population were found similar to the values of distilled water which justifies the fact that anthropogenic activities are majorly responsible for the higher content of organic contamination in the river water.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, KGC, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to Be University), Haridwar, India

    Damini Rana

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

    Damini Rana

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

    Neha Tiwari & Namita Joshi

  4. Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board, Dehradun, India

    Sudarshan S. Pal & Ankur Kansal

  5. Dehradun and Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board, DIT University, Dehradun, India

    S. P. Subudhi

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Rana, D., Tiwari, N., Pal, S.S., Subudhi, S.P., Kansal, A., Joshi, N. (2023). Investigation of Organic Carbon Contamination in Himalayan Rivers of Uttarakhand. In: Siddiqui, N.A., Baxtiyarovich, A.S., Nandan, A., Mondal, P. (eds) Advances in Waste Management. AIR 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7506-6_8

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