**4. Conclusions**

River is an important for every human being. History showed that major civilization was developed on the bank of river. But due to modern civilization, increased in population and changing lifestyle of human, the quality and quantity of river is gradually reduced. The present study concluded that the level of total alkalinity, total dissolved solid, total hardness, turbidity, Pb, Ni, Cd, Ca, Fe and Cu was found beyond the acceptable limits of drinking water quality standard. The level of anionic detergent in drinking water is 0.2 mg/L recommended by Indian government but the value of anionic surfactant were exceed in Pakka Pul, Daliganj Bridge and Dilkusha sampling point. The emerging level of water pollution caused due to continuously discharging of improper and untreated sewage and wastewater. This study strongly recommended to awareness is need to people of this city and good operation practice to operator of STP.
