Abstract Water quality assessment is key to the conservation and management of rivers. River Saraswati, a distributary river Ganga, serves as lifeline many villages in district Hooghly West Bengal, India. As gradually dying due diverse man‐made pollution, ten water parameters two sampling spots (PR‐1 PR‐2) are monitored month‐wise from March 2017 February 2020, these compared with those referen...