GROUNDWATER ANALYSIS IN THE VICINITY OF NAG RIVER

Khalid Ansari, S.R. Khandeshwar

Abstract: The objective of this research studies is to analyse the water and waste water characteristics of Nag river and groundwater quality in the vicinity of the river. Nag River, which serves as the tributary of the Kanhan River originates in the hills to the west of Nagpur and flows in a serpentine course past Nagpur City, joining the main river at Saongi in the east of the District. Today most of the Nagpur sewage is let into Nag River tributaries without any sufficient treatments, which includes wastes, hazardous in nature of this river which crosses the city which has population of about 50 lakh, which makes the river extremely polluted. The River which titled the city is now struggling for its own existence. For the analysis purpose of the river, by whose name lots of people swear as their mother, has been divided into five areas based on the occupancy .The values from the studies were found to be problematic in the vicinity and nearby area. In the present study, groundwater samples of monsoon, winter and summer season of the selected five different zones of the city were taken for the investigation and analyzed for various parameters with regard to drinking water standards and assessed for their suitability for human consumption. The results of ground water direct us to the fact that the pollution in Nag river has its effect on the ground water as well as the Water Quality Index (WQI) which reflect a composite influence of contributing factors on the quality of water for any water system

Keywords: Water & Waste Water Quality, Nag River and Nagpur, groundwater, physico-chemical characteristics, pollution, water quality index

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0311042