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Year: 2001 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 623-627
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2001.623.627
Physico-chemical and Biological Study of Dhabeji Springs, Malir, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
S. M. Leghari, T. M. Jahangir, M. Y. Khahawar and Abdullah Leghari

Abstract: Water samples from two natural springs located at Dhabeji, (I) Baba Bukhari spring near railway station, (II) Dhabeji main spring were collected and analyzed for water quality. pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), chloride and hardness were observed in the range of 6.9 - 7.78, 1943 - 2732 mg/L, 630 - 850 mg/L and 450 - 600 mg/L respectively. Kjeldahl nitrogen, ammonia, nitrate nitrogen and hydrolysable phosphate phosphorus were observed with in range of 0 - 0.06 mg/L, 0.4 - 0.6 mg/L and 0.08 - 0.18 mg/L respectively. Water samples were also examined for biological life in which 2 of species of Bacterial, 24 species of Cyanophyta, 11 species. Chlorophyta, 1 specie of Compsopogon coeruleus Mont of Rhodophyta, 5 species. Bacillarophyta, Riccia fluentans & Moss, 12 species. of aquatic plants (spermatophyta), 2 sp. of zooplankton, 4 sp. of fishes also robranchium were identified and spring are classified chliarothermic type (18-30°C).

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S. M. Leghari, T. M. Jahangir, M. Y. Khahawar and Abdullah Leghari , 2001. Physico-chemical and Biological Study of Dhabeji Springs, Malir, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Biological Sciences, 1: 623-627.

Keywords: flora and fauna, water quality and Dhabeji springs

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