Investigation of heavy metal concentrations in the water, sediment and aquatic plant samples of Nemrut crater lake.

Our World faces many threats. The most dangerous one is environmental pollution. Water pollution is a part of environmental pollution. Due to industrial and industrial wastes, mining operations and natural disasters, our wetlands are rapidly polluted without being recycled. One of these pollutants is heavy metals. Heavy metals are mixed with water from natural sources and human activity. Most of metal pollution occurs as a result dustrial activities and most of it is collected in water. Heavy metal pass to water resources when industrial wastes or acid rains dissolve the soil and hence the heavy metals present in the compotion and dissolved heavy metal reach the river, lake and groundwater. In this study, we studied the concentrations of heavy metal in different organs (roots, stems, leaves and flowers) or wetland species such as Phragmites australis and Juncus inflexus and soil samples taken from the environment where this plant naturally grows. Calsiyum (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni) and Cadmidyum (Cd) were tried to be determined using ICP-MS.