Foreword
To ascertain the status and trends of water quality in the inland water bodies, the Central Pollution Control Board (CP,CB) in collaboration with the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) launched a programme on Monitoring of Indian National Aquatic Resources (MINARS). Under this programme, so far 480 sites have been selected. These include the major rivers, medium and minor rivers, lakes, canals, creeks and ground water resources. Monitoring is conducted by respective SPCBs and a computer network has been established for transmittal of data, After collating and processing of data, CPCB brings out Water Quality Statistics and Status Reports on yearly basis.

The present report entails the water quality status and statistics based on monitoring data of 1993 and 1994 respectively. The water quality profiles of
the 12.major rivers have been presented in Chapter 2 and Water Quality