Abstract
The major rivers of Nashik District (Maharashtra State, India) are Godavari, Kadawa, Girna, Punad and Mosam. The major water pollutant of Nashik District Rivers is Phosphate. The amount of phosphate has been determined by the molybdenum blue phosphorous method in conjugation with UV-Visible Spectrophotometer. The data has been analyzed by least square method. The more phosphate polluted river in Nashik district is Godavari. The least phosphate polluted river in Nashik District is Punad.
Highlights
The major rivers of Nashik District (Maharashtra State, India) are Godavari, Kadawa, Girna Punad, and Mosam
A large amount of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides used on crops, and the organo phosphate insecticides used on grapes, pomegranates and vegetable in the field may get washed by rain water and reach to the river through agricultural run off
The absorbance, amount phosphate determined by Shimadzu UV-Visible (1700) Spectrophotometer, and calculated by equation (4) of water samples of Kadva River are shown in the Table 4
Summary
The major rivers of Nashik District (Maharashtra State, India) are Godavari, Kadawa, Girna Punad, and Mosam. The major water pollutant of these rivers is phosphate. A large amount of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides used on crops, and the organo phosphate insecticides used on grapes, pomegranates and vegetable in the field may get washed by rain water and reach to the river through agricultural run off. Phosphate insecticides cause irreveversible inhibition of the enzyme chlorine steerage. These agents are absorbed by all routes including skin, mucosa, and symptoms and include weakness, blurred vision, headache, giddiness, nausea and pain in chest[2]. Organo phosphates may cause harmful effects on wild life. They affect calcium metabolism in birds, which affects egg lying with egg shells and reproductive failure[3]. The amount of phosphate present in the water samples of Nashik District rivers has been determined by the molybdenum blue phosphorous method in conjugation with UV-Visible Spectrophotometer[4,5]
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