Water Quality Analysis of Krishna River Basin in Kolhapur District, Maharashtra, India

Clean safe and Healthy fresh water is most important to the existence of life. There is still a serious problem with adequate availability of fresh water for human consumption. The quality of water is degraded due to human activity like removal of vegetation, Industrial activity, discharge of chemical mixed water, sewage, and disposal materials etc. These all problem are largely concentrated in and around urban areas. Keeping this view in the account systematic study has been carried out the water quality of Krishna River basin in Kolhapur district. Water sample data have been collected from India WIRS website 28 sample data from Year 2018 to Year 2019 were use for this analysis. Physic-chemical parameters have been analyzed by standard method. Correlation matrix has been use for examining relationship between the water quality parameters, and the study is conducted to analyze the water quality status of Krishna river basin in Kolhapur district. The results of the concentration were interpreted and compared with World Health Organization (WHO) (2012) and Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) (2012) Standards. The result of Water Quality Index (WQI) computation infers that the water quality of Krishna River basin is rated as Excellent for human consumption.