Abstract
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Highlights
The fresh water streams in Kashmir Himalaya are the potable sources of water for the region but due to their exploitation for various purposes like drinking, domestic, agriculture, hydropower, etc
Little work has been done on the stream ecosystems of the Kashmir valley and it is only very recently some work have been conducted on the physicochemical and biological aspects of streams (Rashid et al, 2006; Bhat et al, 2011; Hussain and Pandit, 2011)
The annual mean water temperature ranged from 12.8 to 14.8°C, with highest temperature being recorded at Site I and lowest at Site III
Summary
The fresh water streams in Kashmir Himalaya are the potable sources of water for the region but due to their exploitation for various purposes like drinking, domestic, agriculture, hydropower, etc. These vital resources are getting degraded and polluted as the human population grows. Very recently, WQI was applied to evaluate the water quality of Vishav stream in Kashmir (Hamid et al, 2013). No substantial work on WQI has been carried out on the incoming streams of Wular lake, the largest fresh water lake in Indian subcontinent
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