Assessment and minimisation of pollution level of ground water for drinking purpose (original) (raw)

Revolutionary advancement in human life style through civilization, industrialization, modernization and globalization created environmental imbalance resulting increased pollution of natural resources and challenging the earth’s existence. A valuable component of hydrological cycle is water used for drinking and to solve other domestic purpose. It is necessary that everyone would be known about the water quality. Keeping in view, the presented study is aimed to access water quality of district Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India by calculating Water Quality Index (WQI) using data obtained after analysing ground water (60 samples) for physicochemical properties as pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), total hardness (TH), major anions like bicarbonate (HCO3), chloride (Cl), sulphate (SO4), nitrate (NO3) fluoride (F) and some cations such as calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na) and potassium (K) for drinking purpose suggested by Bureau of Indian standard. Water quality ascertained on t...