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Comprehensive Assessment of Groundwater from various areas of
Aurangabad city, Maharashtra (India).
Jogdand Onkar
1
, Potadar Vishnu
2
, Pawar Supriya
3
1
Assistant Professor,Department of Environmental Science, Deogiri College, Aurangabad.
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Deogiri College, Aurangabad.
3
PG Student,Department of Environmental Science, Deogiri College, Aurangabad.
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Abstract - Groundwater is a significant water resource
accounts for 30% of the globes freshwater.
97% of extracted groundwater is useful for drinking and
human consumption. The aim of present study is to analyze
the scientific production which deals with the study of
groundwater. The maximum value of pH was observed in the
month of February and minimum value was from June month
and the average value was 7.5. The maximum value of
temperature was observed in the month of May was 28.3
0
C
and minimum value was 25.3
0
C from March month and the
average value was 26.9
0
C. The maximum value of Electrical
conductivity was observed in the month of February was 75.6
µS/cm and minimum value was 56.9 µS/cm from March
month and the average value of Electrical conductivity was
67.83 µS/cm. The maximum value of DO was observed in the
month of January i.e. 13.6 mg/litre and minimum value was
from May month and the average value was 11.56 mg/litre.
The maximum value of BOD was observed in the month of
January i.e. 27.9 and minimum value was 16.3mg/litre from
April month and the average value was 22.53mg/litre. The
maximum value of COD was observed in the month of April
was.13.2 and minimum value was 9.2 from January month and
the average value was 11.2 mg/litre. The maximum value of
TDS was observed in the month of January was 358 and
minimum value was 289 mg/litre from May month and the
average value was 327 mg/litre. The maximum value of
Turbidity was observed in the month of June i.e. 6.1 and
minimum value was from February month and the average
value was 3.6 NTU. The present research study aims to identify
the proper areas of water pumping for drinking as well as
agricultural harvest in the study region. Industrialization and
Urbanization, other manmade activities which affect the
quality of groundwater.
Key Words: groundwater, physicochemical, parameters,
water, quality.
1. INTRODUCTION
Groundwater is the most important natural resource for the
human consumption and support of habitat and for
maintaining the feature of base flow to river courses, while
its quality is necessary to ensure sustainable safe exploit of
the resources for all the purposes. Surface water is the main
resource for drinking and domestic purposes, its scarcity
because of industrial development and population growth; it
makes people by forcing to use groundwater for the portable
and domestic uses in urban areas in Aurangabad. Water have
many applications and every organism need it, a study of
water from different the aspects which becomes essential
(Potadar et al., 2021; Padalkar and Kumar, 2018).The
groundwater quality is the importance of every one of those
procedures and responses that follow on water from the tiny
it is primarily gathered until the time which is stored in a
well that is regularly controlled by numerous
physicochemical attributes. Groundwater plays a very
important role in public water supplies around the world.
Universally, more than two billion peoples are depend on the
groundwater for their daily need of water supply and more
than half of the world’s population depends on the
groundwater for drinking purpose (Anthony; 2006).At the
same time the amount of groundwater consumption has
been rapidly increasing may achieving sustainable
development of groundwater resources is one of the
significant objectives for the future of nations. Groundwater
is the universal largest distributed house of fresh water
which is central to sustaining the ecological systems and
human alteration to the climate change. Sustainability
management of the groundwater resources is particularly
important, with 50% of the global drinking water and 43%
of irrigation sourced from the aquifers. Due to the rigorous
groundwater exploitation, saltwater interference and the
land subsidence may become serious concerns in some of
the areas among the other environmental threats and the
geological hazards. Water is the largest universal liquid of
the Earth, it is very important to all the life forms. It is best
dispersion medium for all the biochemical reactions of the
living process on the earth. Water is an essential nutrient
and is an essential component of every cell, tissue, and the
organ. Water has ability to dissolve organic as well as
inorganic compounds in it; hence water is called as universal
solvent (Potadar et al., 2021; Jadhav and Jadhav, 2017). Due
to the severe destruction of water quality, available water
resources are more and more becoming not suitable or even
harmful for the human consumption (Saraswat et al. 2016;
Vorosmarty et al. 2000). Groundwater pollution is found in a
range of aquifers of unconsolidated sedimented regions to
bedrocks (Kumar et al. 2010; Smedley and Kinniburgh
2002). Groundwater ontamination by trace elements has
turned recently out as a main concern for the policy planners
in the countries like India and in the sub continental zones