National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
For the survival of life water is very important and its scarcity is really a very big issue for us and our society. So, its conservation is most important. When any type of untreated wastewater has been discharged into municipal collection system or in rivers and that water is used for irrigation of plants, it affects our ecosystem. Due to which the risks of infection increase because it contains so many organic and inorganic pollutants, pathogens, antibiotics, drug metabolites, microbes and other chemicals. For the purification and reuse of impure water so many physical, chemical and biological techniques have been developed. To overcome these types of problems a new technique vermifiltration is introduced. Vermifiltration is a natural and biological technique that is self-regulated, odourless and cost-effective. In this technique earthworm’s species (Eisenia fatida) has been used for purification purpose. They can bio-accumulate toxic substances, different chemicals, antibiotics and drug metabolites in their tissues. Their body works as biofilter because they can disinfect and detoxify different types of wastewater and the resulting filtrate (vermiaqua) is almost neutral, pathogen free and chemical free. The study of Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) showed that vermiaqua promotes plant height, leaf size, flowering, fruiting and seedling growth.
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