Status of Drinking Water Sources in Sixteen Villages in and Around Rangia Town, Rangia, Kamrup, Assam

摘要

Water pollution is one of the major concerns for human health. It is very much essential to analyze the underground water to study the variation in quality parameters. Based on the physico- chemical parameters, quality could be rated for various uses for the judicious effective use and get documented for the further references. In the present study, for water quality determination, sixteen villages from eight different directions from Rangia College at 2.5 km and 5 km distance are taking in consideration. For that ground water samples, used by peoples in domestic purposes have been collected from the study area. Different physico-chemical parameters have been examined using WHO and Indian standards to find their suitability for drinking and domestic purposes. The parameters included in the study are pH, conductivity, total solids, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, fluoride, nitrate, iron, arsenic and lead.The results indicate that all the locations excluding few are well within the permissible limit as far as different standards are concerned.