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Envis News Letter May 2008 ISSN No.: 0972-1266 EE NN VV II SS Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 2 May 2008 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH (Formerly Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow) IN THIS ISSUE EDITORIAL ODDS & ENDS. 1 About 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by Pesticide residues in river Yamuna and its water, the most precious natural resource that exists canals in Haryana and Delhi, India . 1 on our planet. Even the fact that water is an essential life sustaining commodity, does not faze or deter Enrichment and fractionation of heavy metals human beings from exploiting it—this resource is in bed sediments of River Narmada, India . 1 being depleted at an alarming rate. Perfluorooctane surfactants in waste waters, the major source of river pollution . 1 India is a country of religion and rituals. Rivers play an important role in performing these activities. A dip The use of an electronic nose to characterize in the holy Ganges during the Maha Kumbh Mela emissions from a highly polluted river . 1 festival will cleanse their souls of sin; the banks are The use of fish community struc-ture as a also used for routine work (washing of clothes, measure of ecological degradation: A case bathing, etc) and for cremation. Many partially burnt study in two tropical rivers of India . 2 bodies are pushed into the waters, ashes of the dead Assessment of bacterial indicators and are scattered in the Ganges. physicochemical parameters to investigate In many regions of India, river water is the main pollution status of Gangetic river system of source of drinking water. India's 14 major, 55 minor Uttara-khand (India) . 2 and several hundred smaller rivers receive millions Water quality management in the lower of litres of sewage, industrial wastes, and agricultural stretch of the river Ganges, east coast of runoffs. Most of these rivers have been degraded to India: an approach through environmental sewage drains with free flowing obnoxious effluents education . 2 containing heavy metals (Zn, Cr, Cu, Ni, Co, As, Hg, Persistent organochlorine pesti-cide residues Cd, and Pb) and pesticides (organochlorine: HCH in soil and surface water of northern Indo- and DDT) residues. Even though larger industries gangetic alluvial plains . 3 are using effluent treatment plants (ETF) however India's rivers are drowning in pollution . 3 hundreds of smaller industrial units release untreated wastes directly into the municipal drains -- Madras develops nanoparticles to fight are a cause of grave concern. Populations in the pesticide residues. 3 towns and villages using these rivers as a source of Water quality assessment of an untreated water are facing serious health problems. effluent impacted urban stream: the Bharalu tributary of the Brahmaputra river, India. 4 An assessment of plankton popu-lation of Cauvery river with refe-rence to pollution . 5 Editor : Water pollution has become an accidental Dr. Farhat N. Jaffery weapon against tribal peoples: Dongria Kond of Niyam-giri hills, India . 5 Sub Editor : DID YOU KNOW ? . 5 Dr. Anvita Shaw RIVER POLLUTION CAUSES AND Dr. Abha Sharma CONSEQUENCES . 5 CURRENT CONCERNS . 9 Published by : Distributed Information Centre on Toxic Chemicals REGULATORY TRENDS . 9 Environmental Information System (ENVIS) ON THE LIGHTER SIDE. 11 at IITR, Lucknow ON THE WEB . 11 BOOK STOP . 11 MINI PROFILE OF ENDOSULFAN . 12 May 2008 Vol. 15, No. 2 ODDS & ENDS Pesticide residues in river Yamuna A metal fractionation study on bed plants (WWTPs) into surface waters. and its canals in Haryana and sediments of river Narmada in central Samples were collected at different Delhi, India India has been carried out to examine stages of treatment of four WWTPs in the enrichment and partitioning of Northern Bavaria, Germany, and from different metal species between five the rivers receiving the treated waste geochemical phases (exchangeable waters (WW). The outflow of PFOA fraction, carbonate fraction, Fe/Mn from the WWTPs to the rivers was 20- oxide fraction, organic fraction and fold higher than the inflow to the residual fraction). The river receives plants; about a tenth was removed toxic substances through a large with the sludge. For PFOS, the number of tributaries and drains increase from inlet to outlet was about flowing in the catchment of the river. 3-fold; almost half of it was retained in Organochlorine pesticides like HCH The toxic substances of particular the sludge. Both surfactants were and DDT are ubiquitously found in all interest are heavy metals derived released into river water from the the components of the environment. from urban runoff as well as municipal WWTP of a medium-sized city with Water of rivers and canals is used for sewage and industrial effluents. domestic, industrial and commercial drinking purposes in India, it becomes Heavy metals entering the river get waste waters; in domestic waste imperative to study the extent and adsorbed onto the suspended waters the surfactants were found at magnitude of these restricted or sediments, which in due course of much lower levels. time settle down in the bottom of the banned pesticides in these water Chemosphere, May 2008. bodies. river. In this study fractionation of metal ions has been carried out with The use of an electronic nose to Residues of organochlorine pesti- the objective to determine the eco- characterize emissions from a cides (OCPs) namely, isomers of toxic potential of metal ions. highly polluted river HCH and endosulfan, DDT and its Although, in most cases (except iron) metabolites, (aldrin and dieldrin), the average trace/heavy metal The Riachuelo–Matanza basin area were analysed in the river Yamuna. concentrations in sediments were (2.240 km2) is located in Buenos This glacier river, flowing through six higher than the standard shale Aires province, Argentina. This area Indian states has a 346 km stretch. values, the risk assessment code as is affected by intensive and extensive Samples were colleted form Haryana applied to the present study reveals agricultural activities, and bears –Delhi and the canals originating from that only about 1–3% of manganese, almost 3,000,000 inhabitants and it. â-HCH, p.p?-DDT, p.p?-DDE and <1% of copper, 16–19% of nickel, more than 10,000 industries, that p.p?-DDD had maximum traceability 4–20% of chromium, 1–4% of lead, release their effluents to the main in test samples (95–100%) followed 8–13% of cadmium and 1–3% of zinc collector of the basin, the Riachuelo by +- HCH, á-HCH and o.p?-DDD exist in exchangeable fraction and river. It is a highly polluted area and (60–84%) and o.p?-DDT, ä-HCH and therefore falls under low to medium the quality of water, soil and air is o.p?-DDE (7–30%) while aldrin, risk category. According to the Geo- severely impaired causing chronic dieldrin, á and â endosulfan remained accumulation Index (GAI), cadmium health problems. As part of an below detection limits (BDL). The shows high accumulation in the river interdisciplinary study undertaken by concentration of ÓHCH and ÓDDT at sediments, rest of other metals are local institutions to reach an environ- different sites of the river ranged under unpolluted to moderately mental quality diagnosis and analysis between 12.76–593.49 ng/l (with a polluted class. of the pollutants dynamics in the m e a n o f 3 1 0 . 2 5 n g / l ) a n d basin system, the air immediately 66.17–722.94 ng/l (with a mean of Environ Monit Assess, June, 2008 above the water in several points at 387.9 ng/l), respectively. In canals the Perfluorooctane surfactants in the Riachuelo river mouth was values were found between 12.38– waste waters, the major source of measured, with an electronic nose. 571.98 ng/l and 109.12–1572.22 ng/l river pollution Water quality parameters simulta- for ÓHCH and ÓDDT, respectively. neously collected at the same sites Water of Gurgaon canal and Western Perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and were analyzed and correlated with Yamuna canal contained maximum perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) the electronic nose response. This and minimum concentration, respec- are persistent and widely distributed study is only exploratory and focuses tively both of ÓHCH and ÓDDT in the environment. Recently, the on the viability of using an electronic residues. discharge of municipal waste water nose to locate conflictive emissions has been shown to be an important throughout a given zone. Environ Monit Assess, Nov. 28 route of such perfluoroalkyl surfac- 2007(online) tants into the aquatic environment. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, April 2008 Enrichment and fractionation of The aim of this study was to assess heavy metals in bed sediments of the mass flow of PFOA and PFOS River Narmada, India from typical waste water treatment ENVIS NEWSLETTER 1 May 2008 Vol. 15, No. 2 The use of fish community struc- every stretch of Gangetic river values (2.20–5.95 mg/l) was recor- ture as a measure of ecological system. The results of bacteriological ded in Babughat whereas correspon- degradation: A case study in two analysis of water revealed that the dingly low values (0.75–2.82 mg/l) tropical rivers of India situation is alarming. The lower were noticed at Gangasagar. This regions of Gangetic river system of can be attributed mainly due to huge Fish community structure and water Uttarakhand facing severe anthropo- organic load of untreated sewage chemistry of two tropical rivers of logical activities, mostly due to from the twin city Howrah and West Bengal, an eastern province of religious belief were heavily polluted. Calcutta situated in the east and west India, were studied for two annual A huge bacterial gene pool was of the river. Spatiotemporal distri- cycles (January 2003–December obtained after this study which was bution of heavy metals reveals a wide 2004) and a higher degree of indicative of immense bacterial range of variations reflecting input of pollution was found in one river (the diversity in the region.
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