Shaheen Begum, Shahana Firdous, Zainab Naeem, Gul-E-Saba Chaudhry, Shanza Arshad, Fakiha Abid, Sania Zahra, Sehrish Khan, Muhammad Adnan, Yeong Yik Sung, Tengku Sifzizul Tengku Muhammad
In present study, Water Quality Index (WQI) has been assessed of the Rawal Lake which is a major source of drinking water for people in the Federal Capital, Islamabad, and its adjacent city Rawalpindi in Pakistan. For this, the principal component analysis (PCA) and WQI were applied as an integrated approach to quantitatively explore difference based on spatial variation in 11 water quality parameters of the five major feeding tributaries of the Rawal Lake, Pakistan. The results of temperature in water, total dissolved solids, pH, electrical conductivity, chlorides and sulfates were well within the allowable World Health Organisation's (WHO) limits...
September 2023: Tropical Life Sciences Research