Assessing Trophic State and Water Quality of Small Lakes and Ponds in Perak
There are thousands of ponds and small lakes in Perak created naturally or as a result of past mining activities in the 1800s and 1900s. Some of these small water bodies have been converted to lake park to provide other ecosystem services such as recreation besides having potential to be used as alternative water supply. Most of these lakes were not monitored nor evaluated in terms of their water quality or trophic conditions to enable better understanding of their safe application for recreation. Water quality sampling was performed at sixteen lakes and ponds in Perak involving in situ and ex-situ measurements of ten environmental parameters. About six lakes have very low dissolved oxygen (DO) levels needed to sustain aquatic life and few lakes have very low transparency levels (
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There are thousands of ponds and small lakes in Perak created naturally or as a result of past mining activities in the 1800s and 1900s. Some of these small water bodies have been converted to lake park to provide other ecosystem services such as recreation besides having potential to be used as alternative water supply. Most of these lakes were not monitored nor evaluated in terms of their water quality or trophic conditions to enable better understanding of their safe application for recreation. Water quality sampling was performed at sixteen lakes and ponds in Perak involving in situ and ex-situ measurements of ten environmental parameters. About six lakes have very low dissolved oxygen (DO) levels needed to sustain aquatic life and few lakes have very low transparency levels (
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DR. ZATI SHARIP, Mohd Hafiz Zulkifli, Mohd Nur Farhan Abd Wahab, TS. HJ. ZUBAIDI JOHAR, IR. MOHD ZAKI BIN MAT AMIN. 2024. Assessing Trophic State and Water Quality of Small Lakes and Ponds in Perak . Digital NAHRIM Publication Repository.