Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Assessment of groundwater quality and mapping of fluoride endemic areas using WQI techniques
Author(s): Pavithra Annadurai, Elayarajan Maharajan and Balakrishnan Natarajan
Abstract: Groundwater is the prime natural resource and their prompt investigations of their quality assessment give clear information about the surface geologic environments. Fluoride is one of the potent anions that deteriorates groundwater quality for both drinking and agricultural purposes. A present study is intended to assess the groundwater quality of Reddiyarchatram block of Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, India and mapping of the magnitude of fluoride endemicity for the entire block. From the collected water samples, 32% of the block is having high fluoride concentration above the recommended level of WHO (> 1.5ppm) and negatively correlates with the calcium and magnesium concentration carbonate and bicarbonate concentration of water helps in understanding that fluoride having an affinity towards these ions. Also, other water quality parameters such as Total dissolved solids, pH, Electrical conductivity varied for place mainly close to permissible limits attributed based on Geogenic or other factors. Fluoride can pass into a dietary tract of when human being when contaminated water is used for irrigation purposes.
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Pavithra Annadurai, Elayarajan Maharajan, Balakrishnan Natarajan. Assessment of groundwater quality and mapping of fluoride endemic areas using WQI techniques. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):4134-4138.
