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The present study addresses the objective of mapping the Water Quality Index (WQI) using a geospatial method to ensure availability of healthy drinking water in parts of Madhya Pradesh Guna district. One thousand nine hundred seventy-two water samples were obtained in the presented study and tested in a laboratory to estimate the Physico-chemical and microbial contamination of drinking water. The GIS techniques were used for spatial analysis of WQI for all the blocks of Guna district to classify in very poor, poor, good and very good water quality categories. In the present study, eight parameters, i.e. pH, Turbidity, Total Dissolve Solid (TDS), Fluoride, Chloride, Iron, total Coliform, were taken into consideration in assigning weights. Higher weightage was assigned according to its water quality and vice versa. The overall assessment of the WQI shows that very good category covers 21.69% of the total area exhibited good category covers 5.57%, moderate category covers 7.3% poor category covers 12.53% and very poor WQI category covers 52.91%.
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We Sincerely thankful to Hon’ble Vice-Chancellorof the Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, for the provision of institutional facilities and their support and guidance for the completion of this work. The authors are also thankful toMadya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal, India for help to analyse the water quality results.
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Bhardwaj, A., Singh, S.K. (2021). Geospatial Approach for Water Quality Index Mapping for Drinking Purpose in Guna District, Madhya Pradesh, India. In: Taloor, A.K., Kotlia, B.S., Kumar, K. (eds) Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas. Geography of the Physical Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67932-3_19
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