Monitoring and assessment of heavy metal contamination in surface water of selected riversShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Geocarto International, ISSN 1010-6049, E-ISSN 1752-0762, Vol. 38, no 1, article id 2256313Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
00. Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]
The current research aimed to monitor and assess the heavy metal contamination in the surface water of 53 sampling sites along the selected rivers using principal component analysis and cluster analysis. For this purpose, both physiochemical parameters such as the temperature (T), the potential of hydrogen (pH), total dissolved solids (TDS) and electroconductivity (EC), and heavy metals such as iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) are analyzed as potential water contaminants. The average values of pH, TDS, EC and T are found at 7.75, 70.89 mg/L, 139.11 µs/cm and 20.29 °C, respectively, and heavy metals including Cr, Ni, Cd, Pb, As and Fe are observed at 0.04, 0.04, 0.04, 0.03, 0.001 and 0.04 mg/L, respectively. Moreover, it is found that in both rivers hazardous metals, including Cr (100%), Cd (92.30%), Pb (100%), Ni (100%) and Fe (91%), exceed the permissible limits of the WHO.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2023. Vol. 38, no 1, article id 2256313
Keywords [en]
cluster analysis, health risk indices, Potential toxic metals, principal component analysis, river Swat and Panjkora, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Panjkora River, Swat River, environmental monitoring, health risk, heavy metal, river pollution, surface water, toxicity
National Category
Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-62532DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2023.2256313ISI: 001064395400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85170692138Local ID: HOA;intsam;906466OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-62532DiVA, id: diva2:1800111
2023-09-252023-09-252023-09-25Bibliographically approved