According to Indian Yogic concept, human body is made up of five elements – air, water, fire, earth and space. Water vital for the survival many small big living creatures mother nature. Great civilizations flourished on banks rivers. The Kolong river, which was once a vibrant has transformed into most polluted due anthropogenic activities. present work needs much attention, as even Central Pol...

Water is a valued natural resource for the existence of all living organisms. Indian rivers are polluted due to the discharge of untreated sewage and industrial effluents. Management of the quality of this precious resource is, therefore, of special importance. In this study river water samples were collected and analysed for physicochemical and bacteriological evaluation of pollution of Kausha...

Community service in the form of domestic liquid waste treatment at Banksa Suci (Cisadane River Garbage Bank) Ciheuni is motivated by wastewater flowing into Cisadane river and passing through park which has been polluted with black water showing. The comes from area around consists residential areas, offices hospitals. Polluted that flows can contaminate body its ecosystem. This activity aims ...

Cyprinodontiformes fishes (guppies) are widely distributed in Neotropical regions and use deteriorated microhabitats in rivers where few species can occur. This study was carried out in a stretch of the Paraíba do Sul River in bracketing a large urban-industrial complex. The aim was to assess eventual effects that the industrial complex could have on distribution of two closely related fish spe...

This study examines the levels of concentration of metal pollutants in river Kubanni and the health implications of these metal contaminants. The main sources of data for the study were sediments from long profile of the river and WHO guidelines for drinking water that were obtained from relevant literatures and internet. The samples were prepared and Instrumental Nitrogen Activation Analysis (...

Studies on estrogenic disrupting compounds (EDCs) occurrence and identification of main responsible compounds in river water discharged into the sea are of significance. In the present research, we screened estrogenic activities of 10 river water samples from 3 main rivers discharged into Bohai Sea in Tianjin using a recombinant two-hybrid yeast assay and chemical analysis by gas chromatography...

The aim of this study was to assess the influence of urban waste, sewage and other human centred activities on the microbiological quality of the river Subin, which flows through the metropolis of Kumasi, Ghana, and serves as drinking water for communities downstream. Three sites, Racecourse, Asafo and Asago, on the Subin were monitored over a year for total coliforms, faecal coliforms, enteroc...