IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SURFACE WATER QUALITY

Abstract

Climate change is a serious threat caused by anthropogenic activities like burning of fossil fuels, destroying
of rainforests and clearing land forms for agriculture, setting up of industries and other practices. This has resulted in
the accumulation of vast amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Weather and climate pattern are dynamic in
nature and with an unaffected increase in human activities one can expect drastic change in the near future, with an
increased prevalence of extreme weather schocks.Amongst other, climate change has a major adverse effect on
quality of surface water. It reciprocally detirments traditional balance of water bodies and ecosystems, leading to the
degradation of water quality. To understand the impact of weather on water quality. We first study the surface water
bodies such as river, lakes and streams and secondly the parameters like physical-chemical, biological and micro
pollutants are to be considered. Present Paper discusses the impact of climate change on the surface water quality and
also focus to understand how droughts and floods coincides with temperature and rainfall.