The current study area consists of industrial cities of Sialkot and Wazirabad (Pakistan) known worldwide for their tanneries, phar-maceuticals, surgical, sports and cutlery industries. Nullah Aik and Palkhu streams in these areas receive untreated industrial effluents, urban and domestic sewage, municipal wastes and agricultural run-off. These streams have been categorized among the most polluted streams of Pakistan. The aquatic ecosystem is highly stressed due to release of untreated industrial and urban effluents. It has been predicted that in near future these streams will lose their aquatic integrity if no restoration practices are initiated (Qadir et al., 2008). Agricultural land in a suburb of the aforementioned cities is irrigated with wastewater from these streams and tube well water.