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Ground Water Quality Index of Howrah, the Heritage City of West Bengal, India

1Central Pollution Control Board, Southend Conclave, 502 Block, 1582 Rajdanga Main Road, Kolkata


Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2015, Vol. 3 No. 1, 5-10
DOI: 10.12691/aees-3-1-2
Copyright © 2015 Science and Education Publishing

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Dipu Sukumaran, Chitralekha Sengupta, Rita Saha, Rakesh Chandra Saxena. Ground Water Quality Index of Howrah, the Heritage City of West Bengal, India. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2015; 3(1):5-10. doi: 10.12691/aees-3-1-2.

Correspondence to: Dipu  Sukumaran, Central Pollution Control Board, Southend Conclave, 502 Block, 1582 Rajdanga Main Road, Kolkata. Email: dipudr@rediffmail.com

Abstract

The present study mainly focused on trend of the drinking water quality of one of the heritage city of India, Howrah. The ground water from ten stations was analysed for two consecutive years. Water Quality Index (WQI) based on physicochemical parameters put the drinking water into “nearing to poor” in 2012 and “excellent” in 2013. But the high concentration of total and fecal coliform makes the water unsafe for drinking in both years. Alkalinity, Chloride, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and Nitrate concentrations in some stations were found above the drinking water standards.

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