Assessment of Groundwater Quality in Central India
| Autor: | Khageshwar Singh Patel, Suryakant Chakradhari, Keshaw Prakash Rajhans, Laurent Matini, Shobhana Ramteke, Pravin Kumar Sahu, Shabya Choudhary |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Hydrology
Irrigation Animal science 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences 0208 environmental biotechnology Environmental science 02 engineering and technology Water quality Groundwater quality 01 natural sciences Groundwater 020801 environmental engineering 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Water Resource and Protection. :12-19 |
| ISSN: | 1945-3108 1945-3094 |
| DOI: | 10.4236/jwarp.2016.81002 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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