Mujawar Ummekousar and Abdar Mohan
Abstract
The South-western part of Maharashtra includes the Sangli, Satara, and Kolhapur districts. These three districts are agriculturally well-developed due to fertile land, and huge water resources such as the river Krishna and its tributaries. Several minor irrigation tanks which was specially built for irrigation and drinking purposes. The Siddhewadi and Morna MI tanks are major water resources to the Tasgoan and Shirala tehsil community, therefore, to study the present water quality status through fresh water macro invertebrates and its diversity of the above water bodies, the present work was done in Morna and Siddhewadi tank during August 2022 to July 2023. The total 1500 macro invertebrate individuals were observed. The total 39 macro invertebrate species were reported. Macro invertebrate species belonged to 7 orders and 19 families in the reported area. Biological Monitoring Working Party Score (BMWPS) of 39 species of macro invertebrates were studied, it indicates that 21 are sensitive while 18 are tolerant species.