HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATED WATER APPLICATION AND HOW IT AFFECTS SOIL AND PLANTS THROUGH PHYTOREMEDIATION

Abstract

Water is increasingly being applied for irrigation in vegetable cultivation in the peri-urban zones of rapidly rising cities. Wastewater being used by Farmers is heavily polluted with poisonous heavy metals as a result of industrial discharge and other human activities. As a result, long-term wastewater application is detrimental to soil and vegetable health. The current study looked at the heavy metal concentration (As, Cd, Cr, Hg, and Pb) in agricultural soil, water, and vegetable samples. Heavy metals are the high-density content and not easily accumulated in the soil and water. these metals are dissolved in soil through anthropogenic processes, like humans are using the metals like mercury in lab and after the use they dispose these metal on the soil surface. When these metals are put on the soil surface they decompose and leach into the soil subsurface layer after that they percolate into groundwater.