TITLE:
Assessment of Groundwater Quality in Central India
AUTHORS:
Shabya Choudhary, Shobhana Ramteke, Keshaw Prakash Rajhans, Pravin Kumar Sahu, Suryakant Chakradhari, Khageshwar Singh Patel, Laurent Matini
KEYWORDS:
Groundwater, Indices, Sources
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Water Resource and Protection,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
11,
2016
ABSTRACT: The groundwater is widely used for irrigation of rice crops. The overuse of groundwater causes depletion of the water quality (i.e. enormous increase in conductivity, hardness and ion and metal contents, etc.) in several regions of the country and world. In this work, the quality of the groundwater in the densestrice cropping area, Saraipali, Chhattisgarh, Central India is discussed. The water is sodic in nature with extremely high electrical conductivity. The mean concentration (n = 30) of F-, Cl-, NO3-, SO42-, NH4+, Na+, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+ and Fe in the water was 1.2 ± 0.2, 98 ± 31, 46 ± 15, 56 ± 9, 19 ± 4, 206 ± 25, 9.2 ± 2.3, 39 ± 6, 114 ± 19 and 1.7 ± 0.6 mg/L, respectively. The sources of the contaminants are apportioned by using the factor analysis model. The suitability of the groundwater for the drinking and irrigation purposes is assessed.