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Table 1 Quality of clean, moderately polluted and highly polluted water: concentration of phosphate, nitrate, and total organic carbon (TOC), pH and electrical conductivity (EC)

From: Global water quality changes posing threat of increasing infectious diseases, a case study on malaria vector Anopheles stephensi coping with the water pollutants using age-stage, two-sex life table method

Parameter

Clean water

Moderately polluted water

Highly polluted water

Phosphate (mg. L−1)

 < 0.01

2

6

Nitrate (mg. L−1)

 < 0.01

5

50

TOC (mg. L−1)

 < 0.01

5

10

pH

7.33

7.17

7.24

EC (µS/cm)

380.4

465.6

544.2