scholarly journals Carcinogenic trace metals in ground water of Bathinda district, Punjab, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
Kaptan Singh ◽  
Govind Pandey ◽  
Rajesh Singh

Water is the second important source for surviving of human being on the earth because of it plays the major role in functioning of the body. in some decades decline the water quality due to the threatening of the environmental conditions and disposed untreated waste water in the water bodies which generate during the different activity in industries and human activities, which causes of increases of contamination of carcinogenic metals Include, mercury, cadmium, Arsenic, chromium, Selenium, Beryllium, Cobalt and nickel in ground water. These toxic metals Cancer causing to human being. Metals found in combined form of other element in the water. Carcinogenic metals Hg, Cr, As, Co, Cd, etc. also constituents of the earth crust. These were soluble in the percolate water, merged in the ground water. we have Evidences of carcinogens metals in the ground water of Bathinda district of Punjab. The present study attempt has been made to identify the types and concentration of different carcinogenic metallic ions present in ground water of South-Western, Bathinda district of Punjab. The pH was ranged from 6.5 -7.4 which were within the permissible limit of drinking ground water. Cr and Hg is above the permissible limit of drinking water quality guideline of WHO and BIS. Cr ranged from 70-360 ppb in ground water and highest level of Cr was observed at Lehra Mohabbat. The permissible limit in drinking water of Hg is 1ppb, all the sample have the Hg concentration level is above the limit. Expect three sites (JWS2-17.6 ppb, Bhambhia-11.9 ppb and Ganga-10.7 ppb) the concentration of Se and As was below the permissible limit.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ali Nasser Hilo

The low level of water in rivers in Iraq leads to poor water quality, on that basis; we need to assess Iraq's water resources for uses of irrigation and drinking water. This study present a model accounts for ground water quality by using a water quality index (WQI) for the region defined between the city of Kut and the city of Badra in Wasit province. this study relies on a system of wells set up along the path through the Badra –Kut  and around it  up to 78 wells. The study showed poor quality of ground water in the region of study and it is unsuitability for irrigation and drinking water, as well as provided a solution to the water accumulated in the Shuwayja to reduce the bad effect on groundwater by using a system of branch and collection canals  then pumping at the effluent  of Al  Shuwayja in seasons of rainy season ..Water quality index calculated depend on the basis of various physic-chemical parameters as PH, Ec , TDS, TSS, Nacl , SO4 ,Na , and  Mg. The resultant and analytical are present with use of Arch GIS program – geostastical analysis for the water index and water quality parameters


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Molla Rahman Shaibur ◽  
Mohammed Sadid Hossain ◽  
Shirina Khatun ◽  
F. K. Sayema Tanzia

AbstractThis study aimed to determine the quality of drinking water supplied in different types of food stalls in Jashore Municipality, Bangladesh. A total of 35 water samples were collected from different tea stalls, street side fast food stalls, normal restaurants and well-furnished restaurants. The water quality was evaluated by determining the distinct physical, chemical and biological parameters. The results revealed that the water used in the food stalls and restaurants for drinking purpose was in desired quality in terms of turbidity, electrical conductivity, pH, total dissolved solids, nitrate (NO3−), sulfate (SO42−), phosphate (PO43−), chloride (Cl−), sodium (Na) and potassium (K) concentrations. The values were within the permissible limit proposed by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the World Health Organization. Concentrations of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) found in several samples were higher than the World Health Organization standard. Iron (Fe) concentrations were higher than the permissible limit of the World Health Organization. Only 46% exceeded the permissible limit of Bangladesh Bureau Statistics. The threatening result was that the samples were contaminated by fecal coliform, indicating that the people of Jashore Municipality may have a greater chance of being affected by pathogenic bacteria. The drinking water provided in the street side fast food stalls was biologically contaminated. The findings demonstrate that the drinking water used in food stalls and restaurants of Jashore Municipality did not meet up the potable drinking water quality standards and therefore was detrimental to public health.


Author(s):  
P. Prakash ◽  
A. Kumar Das ◽  
C. V. S. Sandilya

The state of Andhra Pradesh, India falls in water stress<sup>4</sup> area. The primary objective of this study is to examine the spatial distribution of different chemical elements with respect to its contamination level. About 70 % of drinking water needs in rural areas and 40 % drinking water needs in urban areas are met from groundwater resources. In the last decades, rapid population growth coupled with agricultural expansion due to subsidized power to agriculture has significantly increased demand on groundwater resources. Combined to this, the effect of Global warming has put stress on ground water which is resulting in declines in water levels and deterioration of ground water quality. This may be evidenced by the fact that the phreatic aquifer which was in use two decades ago, is existing no more now in some of the parts of the study area and the water is being drawn from deeper aquifers beyond phreatic aquifers. The study has been carried out for which one or more elements are contaminated and to study its spatial distribution.


1970 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra K. Mahat ◽  
Rashmi Shrestha

Drinking water quality in Nepal has been an issue of prevalent concern. So, this study was conducted to visualize the scenario of metal contamination in ground water of Dang district located at central west Terai in Nepal. A total of 523 water samples from tubewells and dugwells positioned in 16 village development committees (VDCs) were tested for arsenic in laboratory using atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) employing continuous flow hydride generation technique. Randomly selected 20 samples were also tested for other heavy and trace metals like Mn, Fe, Cu, and Cd using AAS employing flame method. Of the total samples, 50.3% was found to contain arsenic above WHO drinking water qualty guidelines value of 10 ppb (0.01 mg/l) and 10.7% was found to contain arsenic above national drinking water quality guidelines value of 50 ppb (0.05 mg/l). The safest VDC is Sonpur while the most severely affected VDC is Gobardiha. A highest concentration of As of 240 ppb (0.24 mg/ l) was found in Dhikpur VDC. Ground water in this area seemed to be affected by high concentration of iron up to 11.01 mg/l and of manganese up to 0.51 mg/L. Statistical tools were employed to assess the probable association among metals but no significant correlation could be retrieved. Key words: hydride generation-atomic absorption spectrophotometry; redox conversion; arsenicosis; heavy and trace metals DOI: 10.3126/njst.v9i0.3178 Nepal Journal of Science and Technology 9 (2008) 143-148


Author(s):  
Petr Praus

In this chapter the principals and applications of principal component analysis (PCA) applied on hydrological data are presented. Four case studies showed the possibility of PCA to obtain information about wastewater treatment process, drinking water quality in a city network and to find similarities in the data sets of ground water quality results and water-related images. In the first case study, the composition of raw and cleaned wastewater was characterised and its temporal changes were displayed. In the second case study, drinking water samples were divided into clusters in consistency with their sampling localities. In the case study III, the similar samples of ground water were recognised by the calculation of cosine similarity, the Euclidean and Manhattan distances. In the case study IV, 32 water-related images were transformed into a large image matrix whose dimensionality was reduced by PCA. The images were clustered using the PCA scatter plots.


Author(s):  
Tong-Keun Min

I attempt to look into the issue of the ranks of values comprehensively and progressively. Anti-values can be classified into the following six categories by ascending order: (1) the act of destroying the earth-of annihilating humankind and all other living organisms; (2) the act of mass killing of people by initiating a war or committing treason; (3) the act of murdering or causing death to a human being; (4) the act of damaging the body of a human being; (5) the act of greatly harming society; (6) all other crimes not covered by the above. Higher values can be classified into the following five categories in descending rank: (1) absolute values such as absolute truth, absolute goodness, absolute beauty and absolute holiness; (2) the act of contributing to the development and happiness of humankind; (3) the act of contributing to the nation or the state; (4) the act of contributing to the regional society; (5) the act of cultivating oneself and managing one's family well. Generally, people tend to pursue happiness more eagerly than goodness, but because goodness is the higher value than happiness, we ought to pursue goodness more eagerly. In helping people to get the right sense of values and to internalize it, education and enlightenment of citizens based on the guidance of conscience rather than compulsion will be highly effective.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
Bishnu Pandey ◽  
Suman Shakya

This study assesses the rural drinking water quality status in Central Development Region of Nepal. With a total of 250 samples collected from 15 districts of the region, drinking water quality of spring water and ground water representing hill and Terai (lowland) regions were tested and compared for their physicochemical parameters and faecal coliform contamination.None of the spring samples as well as ground water samples violated National Drinking Water Standards (NDWS) for electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), total suspended solids (TSS), appearance, chloride and nitrate. Similarly none violated the standards for total hardness (TH) indicating soft nature of the water. The spring samples were within the NDWS for manganese (Mn) and iron (Fe) whereas 15.4% and 39.0% of the ground water samples violated the standards for manganese and iron, respectively. Gravity water is found to be more alkaline than ground water. Faecal coliforms were the most problematic in both types of sources followed by Ammonia (NH3) and pH in spring sources and by iron, Mn, pH and ammonia in ground water sources, respectively. Spring sources were more contaminated by bacteria than ground water sources. Correlation and regression analysis revealed highly significant correlations between EC and TDS (r=0.979) and between CaH and TH (r=0.988) in ground water suggesting that aquifer chemistry of ground water to be mainly controlled by EC, TDS, TH, and CaH. Similarly, highly significant correlations were found between the following pairs in gravity water: EC and TDS (r=0.983), TA and TDS(r=0.853), CaH and TDS (r=0.912), TH and TDS (r=0.955), EC and CaH (r=0.898), and between CaH and TH (r=0.951).DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hn.v9i0.7074 Hydro Nepal Vol.9 July 2011 52-56


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