Anthropogenic activities affect the rivers and entire basin in different dimensions. All river basins including Ganga Damodar are polluted from unplanned anthropogenic activities. This study is an attempt to access quality of Shilabati River by computing water pollution index using eleven parameters pH, COD, BOD, DO, TDS, Total Hardness, Alkalinity, Phosphate, Chloride, Nitrate, Turbidity measu...

The pandemic of arsenic poisoning due to contaminated groundwater in West Bengal, India, and all of Bangladesh has been thought to be limited to the Ganges Delta (the Lower Ganga Plain), despite early survey reports of arsenic contamination in groundwater in the Union Territory of Chandigarh and its surroundings in the northwestern Upper Ganga Plain and recent findings in the Terai area of Nepa...