October 2018 Vol. 6 No.10

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Original Research Article

Assessment of water and soil quality of River Yamuna irrigated agricultural land and the ultimate effect on the agriculture and Human health

Sumit Pal^{1, 2*}, Neelam Patel¹, Anushree Malik² and D. K. Singh³

¹Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
²CRDT, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
³Dept. of Zoology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

*Corresponding Author’s Email: sumitmicrobe@gmail.com
 
Accepted March 05, 2018

Abstract

Yamuna is the main river for the water resources and irrigation purposes in the National Capital region Delhi. The whole Yamuna pusta region is occupied for agricultural practices. In the present study, water, soil and crop of Yamuna has been collected from 15 different sites of Delhi at regular interval and analysed for the heavy metals name of Cu, Cr, Cd, Ni, Pb, Zn and various physico- chemical properties. There is a high significant correlation found between Copper-Lead, Copper –Zinc, Copper-Nickel, Nickel-Lead and Lead-Zinc. The metal contamination was found very high in the soil situated near Yamuna irrigated with irrigation water having heavy metal contamination. The metal got accumulated in soil and then bio accumulated by the crops grown on the contaminated agricultural field.

Keywords: Metal Pollution, HRI, Bioaccumulation factor, Yamuna