Abstract: Water is the basic requirement for survival on earth and serves many functions to man. High dumping of organic and inorganic effluents into the aquatic system causes growth of numerous strains of microorganisms. This is a serious cause of threat to public health. Kelavarapalli dam, in Hosur Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, provides water as a source of irrigation, industrialization and human consumption in the region. A study was therefore conducted during the period of 2016-18 to evaluate the microbiological ecology of the dam waters that was being used for many purposes. Evaluation of microbial pollution was done in terms of the total coliforms and fecal coliforms that habitat the water resource in the region. Our results indicated that water samples obtained from the dam were high in microbial and fecal contamination with high microbial load.
Keywords: Pollution, Fecal coliform, Microbial contamination, Total coliform.
Title: A STUDY OF ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BACTERIA OF KELAVARAPALLI DAM, HOSUR, TAMIL NADU, INDIA
Author: Veena SS, Ramachandra Mohan Muniyellappa
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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