Physico-chemical studies were conducted in river Arasalar situated in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, India. The study was conducted from January to December 2010. The present paper deals with nutrient status in Arasalar river, for this three stations were selected for the sampling methods i.e., S1, S2 and S3 the main aim of the study was to determine the nutrient status of Arasalar River and the suitab...

The textile dyeing units of Pallipalayam area of Namakkal District play a vital role in polluting the river Cauvery directly and spoiling the underground water levels indirectly by letting off their dyeing effluents. This leads to serious environmental hazards of aquatic organisms. In the present study, the textile dyeing effluents of six major textile dyeing units (ST1, ST2, ST3, ST4, ST5 and ...

Upper Cauvery river basin, India Reservoir construction is one of the major contributors to changes in natural flow regime characteristics. This study aims understand hydrological alterations resulting from reservoirs and water abstraction upper regions basin. The impacts dams on regimes where data available only for periods after assessed. A landscape-based model, FLEX-Topo, used model flows c...

This paper reports a malario-economic survey made by a house-to-house canvass in three malarious and two non-malarious villages in south-eastern Madras between March 1939 and March 1940. The survey was undertaken in order to obtain some understanding of economic and social conditions with particular reference to malaria and its control. The malarious villages included were Kasangadu, Tuvarangur...

the river kabini which is tributary of cauvery drains through industrial area at nanjangud, karnataka. out of the sediment load carried by the river, 2micron the clay fraction was analyzed for total heavy metal contents and advanced statistical techniques such as cluster analysis and correlation matrix were applied in order to investigate the source of heavy metal concentration in the sediments...