Abstract

EFFECT OF SOME NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC COAGULANT ON VARIOUS PARAMETERS OF LODRA POND OF GANDHINAGER DISTRICT

Jaimin K. Desai*, Dr. Sanjay D. Patel and Dr. Bhanwar lal Jat

ABSTRACT

Access to safe drinking and irrigation water is important as a health and development issue at national, regional and local levels. Especially in rural areas, rely on unimproved sources and need for finding ways of treating water is crucial. Turbidity imparts a great problem in water treatment. For this Developing countries pay a high cost to import costly chemicals for water treatment. So in the present study we investigate the natural and their combination with Natural + Synthetic Coagulants on Lodra pond water of Gandhinager District, Gujarat for two different seasons, result shows that after treatment it reduce physico-chemical parameters but still it is not in permissible limit which is recognized by WHO.

Keywords: Lodra pond, Water treatment, Natural and Synthetic Coagulant, Turbidity.