Assessment of Water Quality in Manas Lake (Pune–India) With Reference to the Human Impact

Dr. Roohollah Behzad; Dr. Ravindra G. Jaynhaye; Dr. Praveen G. Saptarshi

Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Assessment of Water Quality in Manas Lake (Pune–India) With Reference to the Human Impact

Dr. Roohollah Behzad, Dr. Ravindra G. Jaynhaye, Dr. Praveen G. Saptarshi

Abstract :

The Manas lake is one of the most important lake near Pune city, Maharashtra state that there is large number of tourist come there for enjoying scenery and recreation reason. Also there are many restaurant, hotels and agricultural land that direct or indirect discharge their sewage into the lake. For identify measure of pollution on this lake sampling and measuring process was taken place on December 2008 and April 2009. The analysis of water has been done and the results for pH, Biological oxygen demand, Chemical oxygen demand, Total alkalinity, Hardness, Dissolved oxygen, Sulphate, Nitrate and other parameters in both samples were compared to understanding the level of pollution on this lake.