1Research Scholar, Department of Forensic Science, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P.India
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Science, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P.India
3Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotais University, Greater Noida, U.P.India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Rajeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Science, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Contact : +91 9411923188, Email : rajeev4n6@gmail.com
Water is increasingly becoming an unusual resource, both in the relation to quantity and quality. Yamuna river water may become contaminated by the accumulation of Zinc through emissions from the rapidly expanding industrial areas, disposal of high element wastes, fertilizers, animal manures, sewage sludge, pesticides, and wastewater irrigation.
Samples of water were collected from the five different sampling sites. Samples collected in the duration of 8 months from January to August with the gap of 20–25 days keeping the climatic change as a major parameter. The concentration of Zinc (Zn) in water from River Yamuna, Delhi was determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).
It was found that the concentration of zinc (Zn) is higher than the permissible limits of WHO and lower than permissible limits only in the month of August. This can be established that the concentration increases with rising temperature and reducing humidity.
It is universally-known that zinc is majorly toxic in nature and humans & animals. Exposure of zinc through water may produce chronic toxicity that could be quite harmful to human life.
Zinc, Yamuna River, Water, Toxicity, Human
