Decontamination of water from Insecticides.

Suryanarayana Raju, G. and Visweswaraiah, K. and Majumder, S. K. (1976) Decontamination of water from Insecticides. Symposium on Rationalisation of the Pesticide Industry and Strategies for proper Deployment of Pesticides. pp. 1-8.

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Abstract

Application of pesticides, both in agriculture and public health, results in the contamination of water resources due to spray drift, direct application, run off resulting from rain fall and irrigation. The main source of this kind of pollution was Dill, BHC and other chlorinated compounds which are relatively more persistent than the other group of organophosphorus group of compounds. Because of the extensive use of pesticides in agriculture, the accumulation of these pesticides, in the life support system is astonishingly high and thus posed the problem of decontamination. In the present investigation, 8. few harmless and inert adsorbents are screened to decontaminate water bath from organochlorine and organophosphorus compounds and the results have revealed that wood charcoal powder at 4% level completely removed lindane, leLC, Dill and at 5% level parathion and fenitrothion. 1'ialathion was removed to 90%. Since the treatment is simple, quick, economical and harmless, it can be adopted to purif'y vater for drinking and aquarium purposes ..

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	pesticides contamination water resources
Subjects:	500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 04 Chemistry and Allied Sciences > 26 Pesticide Chemistry
Divisions:	Food Protectants and Infestation Control
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2017 04:02
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2017 04:02
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/12621

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