Though dissolved organic nitrogen
did not showed any correlation with the HBC but dissolved inorganic
nitrogen showed a significant inverse correlation with TCC
(r2 = 0.32, p < 0.05), VC (r2 = 0.36, p < 0.001), PC (r2 = 0.35,
p < 0.01) (Table 1) indicating that inorganic nitrogen is easily preferred
nitrogen source for growth of viable bacteria than the
organic nitrogen.