European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

EFFECT OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC COAGULANT ON SYNTHETIC AND LAKE WATER TREATMENT

J. K. Desai* and S. D. Patel

ABSTRACT

Access to safe drinking and irrigation water is important as a health and development issue at national, regional, and local levels. About one billion people do not have healthy drinking water. More than six million people (about two million children) die because of diarrhea which is caused by polluted water. Developing countries pay a high cost to import costly chemicals for water treatment. This is the reason why these countries need low-cost and natural chemicals and methods requiring low maintenance and skill. The present study was aimed to investigate the effects of natural, Synthetic and different combination of Natural + synthetic coagulants on synthetic water. Data also compare with the Turbidity data of lakes of Gandhinagar district of Gujarat state for two different seasons results shows that, Synthetic coagulant quite better on lakes water compare to synthetic water, natural coagulant quite better on lakes water compare to synthetic water and combination of synthetic + natural coagulant gives best results on synthetic water compare to lakes water.

Keywords: Synthetic water, lake water, Natural coagulant, Synthetic coagulant, Turbidity.