Assessment of Physico-Chemical Quality of Ground Water in Some Rural Areas Receiving Industrial Wastewater Discharges in Nagpur District, Maharashtra State, India

Abstract

Water is a vital natural resource of the earth. Life is not possible on this planet without water. Due to increased human population, industrialization, use of fertilizers and manmade activity water is polluted to the marked extent with different harmful pollutants. Contaminated water cause severe ill effects on human health hence, it is necessary to check the quality of drinking water at regular intervals in terms of physico-chemical parameters such as pH, TDS, TH, Alkalinity, Chloride, Sulphate, Nitrate, Fluoride etc. The study was conducted for (12) different water quality parameters for six ground water samples collected from open wells and hand pump in some rural areas on and around Nagpur-Raipur National Highway No-6, in Nagpur District, M.S. India. In this area different types of industries are located, such as pulp and paper, food processing, oil Processing mills etc. The untreated effluents from these industries are directly discharged in nearby water bodies; due to this all water bodies in this area are getting polluted. The study includes analysis of physico-chemical parameters of groundwater samples and the values were compared with BIS (1992) and WHO. The results showed that, some of the parameters exceed the prescribed value of BIS and WHO, and hence the water in this area is not safe for human consumption without proper treatment.