Surface water pollution from food activities in the course of Lumbardhi

Session

Agriculture, Food Science and Technology

Description

This research, based on some physical-chemical parameters, shows whether the surface waters are polluted by the discharges of food industries in the Prizren area. We analyzed eight samples in the months of June 2021 and 2022 in accordance with the standards of the Hydrometerological Institute of Kosovo. Water samples were collected at the source of the Lumbardhi stream as a reference point and during its course one sample before entering the city of Prizren and one sample after leaving the city (rural area, urban area) and the fourth sample before the discharge into the Drini river White. Our research is based on several parameters, the values of which indicate whether the surface waters in the Lumbardh river of Prizren are polluted by the discharge waters that are generated by the different food production industries that develop their activity in this area. From the results obtained in our study, we noticed that the water taken at the first sampling site L1 in the source was clean for both years in the same time period, while the other samples that we analyzed had significant changes at points L2, L3 and L4 especially parameters such as: Biological need for Oxygen, Chemical Oxygen Demand, Concentrations of Total Suspended Materials, Ammonium Ion, Nitrates and Nitrites. Almost all pollutant parameters had higher values, in the third sample (L3) taken in the urban area in June 2021, compared to the pollutant parameters in June 2022. In some parameters, there were also excesses of the allowed values.

Keywords:

MTS (Suspended Dissolved Materials), COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), BOD5 (Biological Oxygen Demand), NO3 (Nitrates), NO2 (Nitrites)

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-550-50-5

Location

UBT Kampus, Lipjan

Start Date

29-10-2022 12:00 AM

End Date

30-10-2022 12:00 AM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2022.340

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Surface water pollution from food activities in the course of Lumbardhi

UBT Kampus, Lipjan

This research, based on some physical-chemical parameters, shows whether the surface waters are polluted by the discharges of food industries in the Prizren area. We analyzed eight samples in the months of June 2021 and 2022 in accordance with the standards of the Hydrometerological Institute of Kosovo. Water samples were collected at the source of the Lumbardhi stream as a reference point and during its course one sample before entering the city of Prizren and one sample after leaving the city (rural area, urban area) and the fourth sample before the discharge into the Drini river White. Our research is based on several parameters, the values of which indicate whether the surface waters in the Lumbardh river of Prizren are polluted by the discharge waters that are generated by the different food production industries that develop their activity in this area. From the results obtained in our study, we noticed that the water taken at the first sampling site L1 in the source was clean for both years in the same time period, while the other samples that we analyzed had significant changes at points L2, L3 and L4 especially parameters such as: Biological need for Oxygen, Chemical Oxygen Demand, Concentrations of Total Suspended Materials, Ammonium Ion, Nitrates and Nitrites. Almost all pollutant parameters had higher values, in the third sample (L3) taken in the urban area in June 2021, compared to the pollutant parameters in June 2022. In some parameters, there were also excesses of the allowed values.