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\section{Limnological Description} Background}  Limnology is related with formal study of lakes. In particular treats with the distinctive properties of individual lakes and the nature of their interactions with their surrounding environment (Catchment basin). Lakes has distinct zones of biological communities linked to the physical structure of the lake (Fig. 1). Classical zones studied are (i) Macrophyte or littoral zone, composed mainly by aquatic plants, which are rooted, floating or submerged. (ii) The planktonic zone corresponds to the open surface waters; away from the shore in which organisms passively floating and drifting on the lakes' currents (phyto and zooplankton). Planktonic organism are incapable of swimming against a current, however some of them are somewhat motiles. (iii) Benthic zone is the lowest level of a body of water related with the substratum, including the sediment surface and subsurface layers. (iv) Mixing zone where the interchange of water from planktonic and benthic zone can be mixed.