CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFUSE CHEMICAL POLLUTION

Concern over pollution sources in integrated water and soil quality management has growing recently. The term “diffuse” essentially point to this feature of the discharge of such pollution loads which makes them somewhat difficult to notice, monitor or control. The focus has been on regulating the point source pollution load from urban and Industrial sources and non-point or diffuse load from agriculture, animal husbandry and rural sources were largely ignored in water quality management. Increasing use of chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, perfumes, cosmetics, petrochemicals, harm aquatic life and human health. Other chemical in recent years has caused the more diffused chemicals pollution (G.D. Agrawal, 1999).