Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2017)

Pulp and paper mill are hypothesized to be leading contributors to environmental pollution through the dumping of effluents into local water body. This assumption in the past was more or less correct but now a day’s efficiently proved by study. The samples took from Orient paper mill (OPM) and Son river in district Shahdol during July to December, 2015 for determine the water quality at the mill dumping site and below effluents receiving Son river water. The testing parameters included color, odor, pH, turbidity, electrical conductivity, TDS, TSS, hardness, alkalinity, sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. The inconclusive results matched from drinking water standard reported by Bureau of Indian standards (BIS, 2012) which proved that the paper mill was some more anthropogenic contributors to water way pollution for concerning region.