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Status of Laxmi Taal: An Urban Wetland in Jhansi City

Konjengbam Dayananda Singh, Chitra Gupta

Abstract


Water is one of the abundantly available substances in nature. Laxmi Taal is one of the oldest fresh water lakes in Jhansi. The water of the lake has been considerably depleted in quality. For the investigation five sampling sites were chosen along the periphery of the lake. Water samples are collecting twice one representing pre monsoon and another representing monsoon. Physico-chemical parameter undertaken during study were color and odor, temperature, pH, electrical conductance, total hardness, total alkalinity, total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), dissolved oxygen (DO), biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), iron (Fe) and phosphorous (P). The value of water quality parameters were analyses using standard methods (APHA, 1992). The study concluded that oxygen content of the water is gradually low. Laxmi Taal is suffered from Sedimentation, Eutrophication and treat of loss of biodiversity. The study recommends checking discharge of waste in the lake from domestic and municipality is required to improved water quality.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jpcip.v2i2.184

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