Effects of Land Transformation on Water Quality of Dal Lake, Srinagar, India

Autor:	Shahab Fazal, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Arshad Amin, Ahmad Mujtaba
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Pollutant Hydrology Pollution Environmental change Land use media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Nutrient Geography Urbanization Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Water quality Water resource management Water pollution media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. 42:119-128
ISSN:	0974-3006 0255-660X
DOI:	10.1007/s12524-013-0297-9
Popis:	The present study focuses on the growing human needs which drive the native boatmen of the Kashmir valley (Hanjis) that bring the interchanges of land use/cover classes in Dal lake and its environs of Srinagar city. Further to assesses the effects of land transformation on lake water quality. The results suggested that the significant land use changes have been occurred during the past of 30 years (1981–2011). Besides this, interchange of land has taken place between different land uses classes, which has resulted into lake water pollution due the addition of various nutrients/pollutant discharged from Hanjis activities. The study concludes that the land transformation has converted the once fresh water lake much deteriorated pond.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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