Assessment of Water Quality for Drinking Purpose in District Pauri of Uttarakhand, India

Shweta Tyagi¹, Prashant Singh¹, Bhavtosh Sharma^2, and Rakesh Singh³

¹Department of Chemistry, DAV (PG) College, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

²Uttarakhand Science Education and Research Center (USERC), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

³Department of Chemistry, DBS (PG) College, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Cite this paper:
Shweta Tyagi, Prashant Singh, Bhavtosh Sharma and Rakesh Singh. Assessment of Water Quality for Drinking Purpose in District Pauri of Uttarakhand, India. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2014; 2(4):94-99. doi: 10.12691/aees-2-4-2

Abstract

The water quality of Pauri District of Uttarakhand, India has been assessed during pre- and post-monsoon seasons to express the suitability of water for drinking purposes. The values of turbidity and iron exceed the permissible limit prescribed by Indian Standards for drinking purpose. Some sites were also contaminated with large number of total and fecal coliform bacteria. Piper diagrams exhibit that all water samples fall in Ca-Mg-HCO₃ hydrochemical facies and show the nature of carbonate hardness during both seasons. Based on the seasonal variation, the concentrations of most of the parameters considerably decreased during post-monsoon season and show the dilution effect of rain water in monsoon season. Water quality index describes the suitability of all sources for drinking purpose with ‘Good’ and ‘Excellent’ water quality during pre- and post-monsoon seasons, respectively.

Keywords:
Drinking water quality Piper diagrams Water quality index Uttarakhand Pauri district India

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