Evaluation of the Quality of Drinking Water of Mardan District, KPK, Pakistan

6 Abstract: The quality of drinking water is of vital importance for human being, though most consumers, particularly the young citizens are unaware of the issue. In the present study sixteen samples of drinking water collected from different tube wells of Mardan district were evaluated for physical and chemical quality parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, total hardness, TDS, TSS, BOD and COD and checked for the sulphates, fluorides, chlorides and nitrates ions. The concentrations of all the constituents of water determined were in the normal range, but conductivity, alkalinity and total suspended particles were out of the WHO standard criteria. It can be concluded that the water samples analyzed in this work were not completely fit for drinking.