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Awareness on usage of contaminated groundwater around Perungudi dumpsite, Tamil Nadu, India

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Groundwater is the major drinking water source both in urban and rural area. Mostly in urban and peri-urban areas of developing countries, groundwater is more susceptible to contamination due to urbanization. Therefore, the awareness of usage of groundwater has to be analysed to frame the policy measures and to suggest proper intervention programs. The community residing around Perungudi dumpsite, Tamil Nadu, India, has been chosen to assess the awareness on usage of groundwater using regression model. The groundwater flow and quality analysis assessed technically is in line with people’s perception on groundwater quality. The model results clearly indicate that the socio-economic status (β = 0.167) and distance (β = 0.305) play a major role in groundwater usage. Though 31.2 % of respondents reported that the water quality is bad within 1 km in the contaminated area, 45 % of low socio-economic categories depend on well water. This shows the unawareness of health issues due to the usage of contaminated water. Proper policies have to be framed, especially for the contaminated site to get rid of adverse health impacts due to long-term exposure of contaminated water.

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The authors thank Wageningen University, Netherlands, and SaciWATERs, Hyderabad, for providing research fellowship to carry out the present work. The authors are grateful to Prof. R. Sakthivadivel, Anna University, Chennai, for his guidance and critical review.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India

    K. Parameswari & T. K. Padmini

  2. Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, India

    B. V. Mudgal

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Parameswari, K., Mudgal, B.V. & Padmini, T.K. Awareness on usage of contaminated groundwater around Perungudi dumpsite, Tamil Nadu, India. Environ Dev Sustain 18, 657–668 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-015-9668-4

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