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Management and identification of groundwater quality are vital for the maintenance of freshwater sources in semi-arid and arid areas, which is important for sustainable development. Depending on the quality of the groundwater in various areas, the water quality control authorities can regulate the usage of water for either agriculture or drinking implementations since nearly 85% of India’s population is dependent on groundwater for their domestic and irrigation demand, particularly as a source of drinking in rural areas. This study is to explore and identify suitable areas for pumping groundwater for drinking and agricultural harvest from Hunsur taluk, Mysore district, Karnataka, India. A study of groundwater quality was conducted by analyzing the Water Quality Index (WQI) determined from 30 wells during two seasons of the year 2019 namely Pre-Monsoon and Post-Monsoon. The identification of the quality of water resources for irrigation and drinking purposes can be determined with the help of the Water Quality (WQI) index. The WQI index can be useful for the classification of the quality of drinking water as excellent, good, poor, very poor, or unsuitable for drinking. By using the Weighted Arithmetic Index methodwas calculated using the collected data, the analysis concludes that most of the groundwater samples harvested from the study area are ‘excellent water’, ‘good water’, and ‘poor water’. The IWQ index average for the study area is reported to be in the range of 17.35 to 65.64. |
