Soil is a major reservoir for contaminants as it possesses an ability to bind various chemicals. These chemicals can exist in various forms in soil and different forces keep them bound to soil particles. It is essential to study these interactions because the toxicity of chemicals may strongly depend on the form in which they exist in the environment. Another thing is that soil variability and some environmental properties may change in soil and cause leaching of trace toxic elements like heavy metals tightly bound to soil particles. Metals associated with urban soil are of environmental concern because of their direct and indirect effects on human health. The main purposes of this study undertaken in the Mysore city industrial zone were to identify heavy metals with dangerous environmental load and to find out of their environmental impact (Fe, Cr, Cu, Zn, and Ni). The purpose of this work was to provide information on heavy metals concentration in industrial zone soil of Mysore city, India. Soil samples were analyzed for pH, organic matter, and electrical conductivity. Total and available heavy metal concentrations were determined by AAS. In the present study, heavy metal speciation in soil sample carried out were shows that all metals were mainly associated with the oxidizable and residual fraction, which allows us to predict their mobility in the soil sample

The rapid growth of the population, the technological and industrial boom has brought enormous problems and degradation of the environment. There is a gradual decline in availability of fresh water to be used for irrigation in India. As a consequence, the use of urban waste water (UWW) for irrigating agricultural lands is on the rise particularly in peri-urban areas of developing countries. Effective collection and treatment of urban wastewater is a critical problem in a developing country like India. A case study was undertaken to assess the characteristic of the urban waste water and its management in Mysore city and its long-term effect on irrigation. The untreated and treated urban waste water was collected during 2008 and analyzed in the laboratory. The suitability of the UWW for irrigation purposes is then evaluated according to the existing water quality standards and the results were compared with Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) irrigation water quality standards. It is evident from the results, that the current situation is not promising especially regarding the Electrical Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Chemical Oxygen Demand, Suspended Solids and heavy metal concentrations and also pH of the treated UWW is exceeding the FAO standards. Among the heavy metals, the concentration of Iron and chromium are exceeding the FAO standards.

Urban cities throughout the word are growing with the population, and producing the unlimited wastewater to environment. Living standards of urban population and industries are contributing in producing more quality of UWW. In the mean time these UWW are not treated properly because of inadequeate technology applied in the treatment of UWW. It is a common practices thouout the world that utilizing UWW are usually contains Heavy metal. In the present study phytoremidiation studies were carryout in the soils which are amended with UWW. The crops which are grown regularly by using UWW in the area. In this study some of the crops were selected for the study Spinach oleracea L, Zea mays L, Trigonella foenum graecum L these crops are usually consumed by locals citizens for their ingredients in the food preparation., P.purpureum Schumach were used for cattle feed. In the UWW heavy metals are largely presentand they can be remediate by using selected crop species which are artificially irrigated UWW. Phytoremidiation studies by using the selected and locally available crop species used for the study, and it was shows good accumulation ability with low-maintenance. Bio-Concentration Factor (BCF) and Translocation factor (TF) are evident that, crop species performance, apart from practically irrigated crops P.purpureum Schumach is hoard a highest Heavy metals accumulated crop among selected local plants which were grown in the heavy metal contaminated wastewater agricultural fields.