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@article{180670,
        author = {Jyotiprakash G. Nayak and Pritam Pagare and Avinash Dolhare and Tukaram Bhoye and Tanuja Bhusare and Janhavi Dandage},
        title = {Assessment of Water Quality Of Godavari River At Nashik},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1889-1896},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=180670},
        abstract = {Water is the essence of life to all human 
beings and all living things on the planet. But, it has 
been that the majority of water sources such as rivers 
contaminated at quicker rate, as a result of unchecked 
increase in population and industrialization.The 
current study has been conducted for water quality 
evaluation of Godavari river in and around Nashik city, 
since the Godavari is considered  as a  holy river and 
also known as 'Dakshin Ganga'. Thousands of peoples 
take a sacred bath in the Godavari at Nashik and during 
Kumbh Mela.Once in every twelve year 'Kumbh Mela’  
festival is celebrated at the banks of Godavari at Nashik 
and Triambakeswar.The study has been carried out to 
investigate the water quality at five number of sampling 
stations located along the course of river.In the study, 
five water quality parameters named pH, DO,BOD, 
turbidity and total solids were selected and National 
sanitation water quality index (NSFWQI) values  at 
concerned stations were determined.},
        keywords = {Water Quality, National sanitation  foundation water quality index (NSFWQI), pH, DO,  BOD, Total Solids, Turbidity.},
        month = {June},
        }