STUDIES ON PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS TO ASSESS THE GROUND WATER QUALITY FOR DRINKING PURPOSE IN BALLIA DISTRICT

Abstract

No water, no life, no blue, no green i.e. without water life is impossible. The quality of water
change day by day depending upon sources (1). People on globe are under tremendous threat due to
undesired changes in the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of air, water and soil. Due
to increased human population, industrialization, use of fertilizers and man-made activity water is
highly polluted with different harmful contaminants(2).
Natural water contaminates due to weathering of rocks and leaching of soils, mining processing
etc (3). It is necessary that the quality of drinking water should be checked at regular time interval,
because due to use of contaminated drinking water, human population also suffers from varied of
water borne diseases(4a-b,5).
These could have serious heal The availability of good quality water is an indispensable feature
for preventing diseases and improving quality of life. It is necessary to know details about different
physico-chemical parameters such as color, temperature, acidity, hardness, pH, electrical conductivity
(EC) ,total dissolved (solid) ,total dissolved oxygen(DO) ,total hardness (TH) ,calciumCa2+
,
magneciumMg2+,chloride Cl-
,SO4
2-
, chemical oxygen demand (COD), were analyzed for testing of
water quality .and compared with maximum permissible limits .
The drinking water recommended by some water analysis reports with physic-chemical
parameters have been given for the exploring parameter study. Guidelines of different physic-chemical
parameters also have been given for comparing the value of real water sample.
Keyword: Water, Physico - chemical Parameters, TDS,TH, OD, COD, EC.