European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

CORRELATION STUDY AMONG WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS OF KARWI TAHSIL, DISTRICT CHITRAKOOT AN APPROACH TO WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Ashok Kumar Tiwari*, Surya Kant Chaturvedi, Sharwan Kumar Dixit and Ashwani Awasthi

ABSTRACT

Water is an essential natural resource for sustaining life and environment but over the last few decades the water quality has been deteriorated due to it’s over exploitation. Water quality is essential parameter to be studied when the overall focus is sustainable development keeping mankind at focal point. Groundwater is the major source of drinking water in rural as well as in urban areas and over 94% of the drinking water demand is met by groundwater. The study has been carried out to assess the ground water quality and its suitability for drinking purpose in most rural habitations of Karwi Tehsil of Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh, India. For this purpose, 27 water samples being collected from hand pumps, open wells and bore wells of villages of study area were analyzed for different physicochemical parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, total alkalinity, total hardness, chloride, nitrate, fluoride, phosphate, Iron and total dissolved solids.

Keywords: Water quality parameters, regression equations, correlation, water quality Management.