A BRIEF OVERVIEW ON WATER QUALITY MODELS

For existence of life, water is an important element, which is now a day's become worst due to rapid growth of industries and population. For conservation and proper utilization of water, proper assessment required, which requires constant monitoring in terms of its quality as well as quantity is effective. In some way modeling can control water quality pollution. In water body to predict and simulate the levels as well as the distribution and risk of amount of pollutants can be measured by using a tool known as water quality model. The result from the water quality model helps to environmental agencies to take the right decision. The aim of this paper is to discuss about the different water quality models which can provides the basic knowledge about water quality modeling. For developing country like India water quality models are very much required to predict the water quality of different sources. General Terms: WASP Model, QUAL2K Model, MIKE Model, MIKE SHE Model, DRAINMOND Model, INCA Model, STREETER PHELPS Model, TOP Model, HSPF Model.