Evaluation of BOD and COD parameters with their influence on phytoplankton from Sudha Reservoir near Bhokar, Maharashtra (India)
1Shoukath Unissa Sabry and 2Arjun Bapurao Bhosle
School of Earth Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded-4316061 (India). Email: bhoslearjunenvisci@gmail.com, shoukathsabry@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Water is a fundamental need of human race. The water should be potable and clean for drinking along with agricultural work. For clearing water and makes water body oxygenated, phytoplankton plays an important role in aquatic ecosystem. Presence of adequate number of phytoplankton indicates the healthiness of waterbodies. However, when it surpasses its quantity, it indicates the waterbody become polluted with dissolved nutrients via micro-organisms and other aquatic florafauna. The micro-organism plays an important to convert complex matter into simplest form by using available dissolved oxygen consequences, hypoxia rises. The industrial waste releases into the water body causes drastic changes in phytoplankton productivity rate. The waterbody rises towards BOD and COD conditions by the influence of impurities inducing etc. This investigation aims to study the correlation between phytoplankton productivity with Biochemical oxygen demand and Chemical oxygen demand. The water samples were collected from Sudha reservoir during the January to December 2019 respectively. The results showed there were no effect of BOD and COD on plankton productivity.