TAILIEUCHUNG - Assessment of river water quality using macroinvertebrate organisms as pollution indicators of Cirhanyobowa river, lake Kivu, DR Congo

Biotic indices to monitor water quality are helpful tools for evaluating the health of rivers. Water quality analysis is mainly done using physical and chemical attributes in the DR Congo. The objectives of this study were to assess the biological water of Cirhanyobowa River using macroinvertebrate index and the relationship between physicochemical parameters and the ecological index from January to December, 2017. Eight physicochemical parameters and abundance of macroinvertebrates were obtained for 6 sites from upstream to downstream part, with different land uses. Result showed a decrease in biotic index from upstream (very good water quality) to downstream (bad) due to human activities along the river flows. Brick mining in the downstream part had more effects than agriculture in the upstream part. A correlation analysis showed the variation between the ecological index, abundance of macroinvertebrates and their correlation with physicochemical parameters in Cirhanyobowa River. The findings show that traits can be indicative for different kind of stress but that more effort has to be put in gathering data sets to separate the effect of habitat quality, pollution, and the physicochemical properties of high mountain rivers. | Assessment of river water quality using macroinvertebrate organisms as pollution indicators of Cirhanyobowa river, lake Kivu, DR Congo

• Sinh học
• Macroinvertebrate fauna
• Physicochemical parameters
• Cirhanyobowa river
• Biological index
• Pollution indicators
• Journal of Zoology
• Eichhornia azurea
• Extraordinary flood
• Root biomass
• Littoral zone–limnetic zone
• Biological Indicators
• Metal Pollution
• Pollution Control
• Dissolved Organic
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Potential Tool
• Enzyme activity
• Soil pollution
• Toxic effect
• Technogenic factor
• Bio indicators
• Biochemical parameters
• National highway 22
• Role in development
• Air pollution tolerance index
• Anticipated performance index of plants
• Terrestrial Environment
• national monitoring
• Weather and runoff
• Nitrogen pollution
• Atmospheric deposition
• Phosphorus pollution
• science books
• environmental pollution
• wastewater treatment
• climatic environment
• environmental science
• Toxicology
• avoiding business
• interruption threats
• Complete data
• macroeconomic and financial
• restore confidence
• confidence
• specific difficulties
• patient knowledge
• understanding and concerns
• quality assured generic
• medicines and promoting
• appropriate actions
• Different Marine
• Ecosystems of Taiwan
• Potential Indicators
• Climate Change
• Biodiversity Hotspot
• Extinction Risk
• Plant growth
• Surface water pollution
• Water hyacinth
• Water quality indicators
• Largest correlation
• Comoe river
• Escherichia coli
• Intestinal enterococci
• Microbial pollution
• Public health
• Agricultural Sciences
• Khoa học nông nghiệp
• Heavy metals
• Antioxidant enzymes
• Lipid peroxidation
• Total protein contents
• Soil contamination