Copyright © 2010 Scientific Research Publishing Inc. All rights reserved To order this book, please click here for more information or contact us at bookorder@scirp.org Chapter 9 Tools and Techniques for Water Quality Interpretation Deepesh Machiwal 1 , Madan K. Jha 2 1 SWE Department, College of Technology and Engineering, MPUAT, Udaipur – 313 001, India 2 AgFE Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur – 721 302, India E-mail: dmachiwal@rediffmail.com, madan@agfe.iitkgp.ernet.in Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Conventional and Modern Tools/Techniques for Water Quality Analysis Application of Salient Techniques to Groundwater Quality Assessment Concluding Remarks