Ground water quality assessment and its impact with special reference to Chhindwara District of Madhya Pradesh, India
Keywords:
Water quality, Fluorides, Diseases, Assessment, ParametersAbstract
The Earth is full of natural resource needed for the development of mankind. The day by day increased demand has developed new methods of water quality assessment and management. The study was carried out for the ground water quality assessment of 9 Tahsil/Blocks of Chhindwara district. Water is the basic resource for sustaining all human activities, so its provision in desire quantity and quality is most important. For assessment of water quality of the district were selected Junnardeo, Chhindwara, Chourai, Tamia and Pandhurna. Samples of ground water were collected from 5 blocks of the affected area and analyzed for physico chemical parameters like pH, Electrical conductivity, alkalinity, total hardness, fluoride ion were analyzed. Some water sample show higher fluoride ion concentration, higher turbidity. Over all some parts of bore well/tube well water and hand pump water needed treatment for drinking purpose due to hardness and fluoride are present in desirable limit. The present study is focused on measuring the quality of ground water in rural areas of Chhindwara district and its effect on human health. The sample were found to have high pH, indicating alkalinity, high fluoride concentration is mainly found in Tamia, Chhindwara, Jamai, Pandhurna and Chaurai on the contrary these findings, majority of people living in these areas were suffering from fluoride related disease, so the study argues about the need of proper analysis and importance of water treatment and management system in current times
Downloads
References
The Public Health Engineering Department, Chhindwara. Bhaskara Rao G. (2000) Ground water management studies, in Mohkhed, Chhindwara & Chourai blocks of Chhindwara district by the Central Ground Water Board during Annual Action Plan 1999-2000. Bhaskara Rao G (2001) Ground water management studies, in Amarwara and Harrai blocks of Chhindwara district during Annual Action Plan 2000-2001.
Bhaskara Rao G (2002) Ground water management studies, in Tamia, Parasia, and Jamai blocks of Chhindwara district during Annual Action Plan 2001-2002.
Bhaskara Rao G (2003) Ground water management studies, in Bichhua, Sausar and Pandhurna blocks of Chhindwara district during Annual Action Plan 2002-2003. Kalra N, Kumar R, Yadav SS, Singh RT (2012) Physico-chemical analysis of groundwater taken from five blocks (Udwantnagar, Tarari, Charpokhar, Piro, Sahar) of southern Bhojpur (Bihar), Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 4(3):1827-1832. Juneja T, Chaudhary A (2013) Assessment of water quality and its effects on the health of residents of Jhunjhnu district, Rajasthan: A cross sectional study. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, 5 (4): 186-191. District Ground Water Booklet, (2007). BIS, (1994) Indian Standards Specifications for Drinking Water, Bureau of Indian Standards, IS: 10500 -1994). WHO., (1996) Guidelines for drinking-water quality, health criteria and other supporting information, V.2, 2nd edn, World Health Organization, Geneva, pp 940-949
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2016 Author

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/