Water quality and li river utility, lumphun province

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate water quality and river utility among people settling along the Li River, Lumphun Province. The study was designed by mixed methods. The number of sample size was 364 households in the communities. The research data were collected by questionnaires and analyzed by using descriptive statistics (SPSS for Windows version 19 ).The results showed that total water quality including DO, BOD, TCB, FCB and NH3-N in the summer was at the moderate level (WQI 58 - 68). The Li River utility was at the moderate level (Mean = 2.73, S.D. = 0.57). The relationship between the water quality and the river utility for agriculture had a statistically significant correlation at 0.05 (p –value 0.04).