"Analysis of water quality parameters of ground water near Chittorgarh Industrial area, Rajasthan, India"

Ground water is increasingly being sought as a source of drinking water due to the scarcity, non- availability and bacteriological pollution of surface water. Ground water is a major source for all purposes of water requirements in India and it plays a vital role to human life and economic activity. The occurrence and distribution of ground water in the country varies significantly depending on geology, rainfall and geomorphology. The unplanned and non-scientific development of ground water resources has led to sharp depletion of the resources and also degradation of quality at many places. The present work describes the important results of the physico-chemical analysis of ground water sample of different villages of district Chittorgarth in Rajasthan. The different parameters determined are pH, TDS, Chloride, Total alkalinity and Total hardness, Electrical conductivity, Free carbon dioxide. The obtained results are compared with Indian Standard Drinking Water specification IS: 10500-2012 and it indicates that parameters of all ground water samples are in permissible limits except Hardness of Nimbahera. The interesting fact is that the hardness alone is making ground water unfit for drinking.