Abstract
Water is the most important resource to sustain to progress life on the earth. Most of the communities obtain their water recovered from groundwater. Aquifer is the geologic material that is capable of holding fresh water. Nearly 80% of water resource is used for human purposes. The chemical composition of river water is mainly depending upon many interrelated factors including geology, soil, topography, and biological process. The continuous runoff of water may cause land use changes; therefore, hydrogeochemistry of groundwater is the sum of the total character. Water quality character in some part of area is one of pollution problem comes when the concentration of the ions exceeds the acceptable limit. In this study area, nowadays the problem of environmental pollution increases day-to-day, and anthropogenic influence plays a concerned role in groundwater. The aim of the present study is to explore the physicochemical characterization of groundwater and their major ion interaction in hard rock of this study area. In this case, that is quality character of water resource especially for drinking and domestic purposes it is depend on the constituent of water. Once the concentration exceeds the permissible limit, it causes health effects. Gibbs and mixing plots were used to identify the source of major ions. The contribution of water pollution scenario can be confirmed by field studies by focusing on land use change, agriculture, and settlement activities. The relationship between variables of ions was determined through correlation analysis. A better understanding of hard rock aquifer for water quality changes as development progress by geochemical studies of groundwater is necessary.
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Satheeshkumar, S., Venkateswaran, S., Suresh, R. (2021). Assessment of Groundwater Quality Interaction Using One-Decade Data: A Case Study from a Hard Rock Area. In: Shit, P.K., Bhunia, G.S., Adhikary, P.P., Dash, C.J. (eds) Groundwater and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64136-8_14
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