Assessment of Surface Water Quality of Hindon River Using Two Water Quality Indexes

Abstract

Hindon River is a tributary of one of the blessed waterways called Yamuna waterway having a real beginning in Saharanpur, the range of Upper Sivalik in Uttar Pradesh. It streams around 400 KM from Ganges and Yamuna waterways. Hindon River flows through Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, and Ghaziabad before its confluence with Yamuna at Noida of Uttar Pradesh. In this study, the water sample from the Galeta, Baleni, and Noida in the season of Monsoon, Winter & Summer from June 2021 to May 2022 and analyzed the Twelve core Physico-chemical and Biological water quality parameters such as pH, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Dissolve Solid (TDS), Total Hardness (TH), Calcium Hardness (CH), Magnesium Hardness (MH), Chloride (Cl), Fluoride (F), Sulphate(SO4), Nitrate (NO3) and Total Coliform (TC) and WQ data compared with designated use classification.

The water quality index is a solitary worth that expresses the nature of water by integrating different water quality boundaries and complex information. Its goal is to provide a quick and easy way to convey the water quality for a variety of uses. The estimation of the WQI was finished utilizing the Weighted Arithmetic Water Quality index (WAWQI) and the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME WQI) compared Class C: Drinking water resource with conventional treatment followed by disinfection (BIS 2296:1982). The both Water Quality Index has been determined for every one of the three areas of Hindon River and the outcomes showed that the WAWQI were varying from 48.9 to 563.4 and CCMEWQI from 32.0 to 78.42. It is concluded from WAWQI and CCMEWQI the water of all seasons and all three locations of Hindon River most of the time showed unsuitable and poor water quality concerning class C.