Assessment of water quality of Damodar River in South Bengal region of India by Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment (CCME) Water Quality Index: a case study

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3489-3502

  Haldar, Dibyajyoti ^a   Halder, Seema ^a   Halder, Gopinath ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Saha), Papita   (India)

Author keywords

CCME; Cluster analysis; Damodar; Water quality; WQI

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIVER POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

DAMODAR RIVER; INDIA;

EID: 84955215538     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2014.987168     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. A.Mostafaei, Application of multivariate statistical methods and Water Quality Index to evaluation of water quality in the Kashkan River, Environ. Manage. 53 (2014) 865–881.10.1007/s00267-014-0238-6
2. P.Saha, P.K.Banerjee, S.Datta, Assessment of water quality of Tolly’s Nullah by Water Quality Index (WQI), J. Inst. Eng. 88 (2007) 3–9.
3. R.K.Singh, H.Anandh, Water Quality Index of some Indian rivers, Indian J. Environ. Health 38 (1996) 21–34.
4. A.A.Bordalo, R.Teixeira, A Water Quality Index applied to an international shared river basin: The case of the Douro River, J. Environ. Manage. 38 (2006) 910–920.10.1007/s00267-004-0037-6
5. A.Sargaonkar, V.Deshpande, Development of an overall index of pollution for surface water based on a general classification scheme in Indian context, Environ. Monit. Assess. 89 (2003) 43–67.10.1023/A:1025886025137
6. W.R.Ott, Environmental Indices, Theory and Practice, Ann Arbor Science Publications, Ann Arbor, MI, 1978.
7. R.K.Horton, An index number system for rating water quality, J. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 37 (1965) 300–306.
8. R.O.Ball, R.L.Church, Water Quality Indexing and Scoring, J. Environ. Eng. Div., ASCE 106 (1980) 757–771.
9. R.M.Brown, N.I.McClelland, R.A.Deininger, R.G.Tozer, A Water Quality Index—Do we dare? Water Sewage Works 117 (1970) 339–343.
10. S.H.Dinius, Social accounting system for evaluating water resources, Water Resour. Res. 8 (1972) 1159–1177.10.1029/WR008i005p01159
11. B.Lohani, G.Todino, Water Quality Index for Chao Phraya River, J. Environ. Eng. 110 (1984) 1163–1176.10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(1984)110:6(1163)
12. P.R.Kannel, S.Lee, S.R.Kanel, S.P.Khan, Y.S.Lee, Spatial–temporal variation and comparative assessment of water qualities of urban river system: A case study of the River Bagmati (Nepal), Environ. Monit. Assess. 129 (2007) 433–459.10.1007/s10661-006-9375-6
13. K.Saffran, K.Cash, K.Hallard, Canadian Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life: CCME Water Quality Index 1.0, Technical Report, in: Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines, Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, Winnipeg, 1999.
14. K.J.Cash, K.A.Saffran, C.R.Wright, Technical report, in: Application of the Canadian Water Quality Index (CWQI) to PPWB Monitoring Program, NWRI Publications, Saskatchewan, 2001.
15. A.Lumb, D.Halliwell, T.Sharma, Canadian Water Quality Index (CWQI) to monitor the changes in water quality in the Mackenzie River–Great Bear, in: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Canada, 2002.
16. A.Lumb, D.Halliwell, T.Sharma, Application of CCME Water Quality Index to monitor water quality: A case study of the Mackenzie River basin, Canada, Environ. Monit. Assess. 113 (2006) 411–429.10.1007/s10661-005-9092-6
17. A.Khan, A.R.Paterson, H.Khan, Modification and application of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME WQI) for the communication of drinking water quality data in Newfoundland and Labrador, Water Qual. Res. J. Canada 39 (2004) 289–293.
18. S.Rosemond, D.C.Duro, M.Dubé, Comparative analysis of regional water quality in Canada using the Water Quality Index, Environ. Monit. Assess. 156 (2009) 223–240.10.1007/s10661-008-0480-6
19. H.Shoji, T.Yamamoto, T.Nakamura, Factor analysis of stream pollution of the Yodo River system, Air Water Pollut. 10 (1966) 291–299.
20. T.Hurley, R.Sadiq, A.Mazumder, Adaptation and evaluation of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME WQI) for use as an effective tool to characterize drinking source water quality, Water Res. 46 (2012) 3544–3552.10.1016/j.watres.2012.03.061
21. D.Sharma, A.Kansal, Water quality analysis of River Yamuna using Water Quality Index in the national capital territory, India (2000–2009), Appl. Water Sci. 1 (2011) 147–157.10.1007/s13201-011-0011-4
22. K.Bhattacharyya, The lower Damodar River, India: Understanding the human role in changing fluvial environment, in: Advances in Asian Human – Environmental Research, Springer Publications, 2011, pp. 23–61.
23. S.Gupta, U.S.Banerjee, Geochemistry of the River Damodar – The influence of the geology and weathering environment on the dissolved load, IJGGS 2 (2012) 853–867.
24. A.R.Ghosh, R.Banerjee, Qualitative evaluation of the Damodar River water flowing over the coal mines and industrial area, Int. J. Sci. Res. Publ. 2 (2012) 2250–3153.
25. S.A.Abbasi, Water Quality: Sampling and Analysis, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi, 2007, pp. 200–250.
26. APHA, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, American Public Health Association. Baltimore, MD, 1998.
27. Central Water Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment, Primary Water Quality Criteria for Designated Best Use Classes, Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi, India, 2011.
28. Indian Standards Drinking water Specifications, Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi, India, 2012.
29. Indian Standards Drinking Water Specifications, Second Revision, Bureau of Indian Standards 2012, IS 10500:2012.
30. S.Shrestha, Assessment of surface water quality using multivariate statistical techniques: A case study of the Fuji River basin, Japan, Environ. Model. Softw. 22 (2007) 464–475.10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.02.001
31. X.Zeng, T.C.Rasmussen, Multivariate statistical characterization of water quality in Lake Lanier, GA, USA, J. Environ. Qual. 34 (2005) 1980–1991.10.2134/jeq2004.0337
32. N.C.Kankal, M.M.Indurkar, S.K.Gudadhe, S.R.Wate, Water Quality Index of surface water bodies of Gujarat, India, Asian J. Exp. Sci. 26 (2012) 39–48.
33. F.Fritsch, Some aspects of the ecology of fresh-water algae (with special reference to static waters), J. Ecol. 19 (1931) 233–272.10.2307/2255819