Nature's Ecosystems: The Importance Of Lakes

Water is the giver of life. Water bodies like oceans, rivers, and lakes play an important role in balancing Nature’s ecosystem. Lakes are one of the most widespread and one of the most important ecosystems on the Earth. It is also accounts for being one of the most productive ecosystems. Lake ecosystems serve as life support systems; serve as habitat for a variety of organisms including migratory birds for food and shelter. They also act in bioremediation and hence aptly known as ‘kidneys of the landscape’. Lakes function as a wild flora and fauna sanctuary, which public access. These ecosystems are valuable for education and scientific endeavour’s due to their rich biodiversity. Lakes are very useful for man-kind as it serves many purposes,

The number industries in India, during the last decade, has grown more than ten times and accordingly the development of economic growth and industries. Some of the industries release their effluent water and ultimately groundwater. Government of India is aware of these problems and has started looking into the remedial measure to clean some of the highly-contaminated surface water bodies. Involvement of very high costs of remediation will make this process slow and therefore, it is essential that the contamination of bodies is controlled rather than remediation. Water is an essential element for life. Freshwater comprises 3%of the total water on earth. Only a small percentage (0.01%) of this freshwater is available for human use. Pollution is an undesirable change in the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of our air, land, and water. That may or will affect human life or that of desirable

There are various ways as ground water is contaminated such as use of fertilizer in farming, seepage from effluent bearing water body. Most of the industries discharge their effluent without proper treatment into nearby open pits or pass them through unlined channels, resulting in the contamination of surface water. The incidence of ground water pollution is highest in urban areas where large volumes of waste are concentrated and discharge into relatively small areas. The hydrogeochemical conditions are also responsible for causing significant variations in ground water quality. In this study, the quality of the lake water located at the Chikkakammana Halli and Gottigere lake was studied by determining the Physico-chemical parameters of the water. These studies generate a baseline regarding the quality of the water which is used for agriculture and other household purposes. In the present study to carry out qualitative analysis of Physico-chemical parameters of surface water in the study