Proximate Analysis and Heavy Metal Detection in Aquatic Plants of River Satluj, District Kasur

Abstract

During last few decades the concern over the studies on some contaminants like, fertilizers, pesticides and trace metals and their impacts on environmental compartments such as soil, plants and water have attained a great significance. The lithogenic source is the reason of the presence of trace metals in environment and sometimes the concentration of metal fluxes in environment is increased by anthropogenic influences. The industrial activities are mainly included in the anthropogenic influences (Yanina et al. 2015).