Hydrochemical monitoring of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation use in Rapti Basin

Verma, Amitabh; Yadav, Brijesh Kumar; Singh, Navneet

doi:10.1007/s42452-020-2267-5

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“…Water from boreholes was pumped for about 5 to analyses are applied [30,48]. The characteristics of waters in the area of study were compared with WHOrecommended standard guide values [57,11].…”

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Hydrogeochemical monitoring of groundwater and surface water quality, East of Mount Cameroon and West of the Penda Mboko River, suitability for drinking and irrigation

Jude

Wotany

Agyingi

et al. 2023

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The physicochemical characteristics and implications on quality of water sources from volcanic and sedimentary aquifer systems of the study area were evaluated for management and sustainable development. Fifty samples were collected from hand dug wells, boreholes, rivers and springs. Physicochemical parameters were measured insitu and the major ions were analysed. The Total Dissolved Solid (TDS), pH, Electrical conductivity (EC) and Total Hardness (TH) samples were within the permissible limit of WHO standards. Drinking water quality index (DWQI) values exhibited that 29 (58%) of the samples fell in excellent water quality category (Rank I). While 13 (26%) of samples revealed good water quality for drinking purposes (Rank II). Similarly, 3 (6%) (Rank III), 4 (8%) (Rank IV) and 2 (4%) (Rank VI) of the samples fell in fair, poor and unfit category, respectively. The dispersion of physicochemical variables of the groundwater and Drinking Water Quality Index (DWQI) in the study area were depicted. Results from Piper plot revealed that, Ca-Cl type is the dominant hydro-chemical facies. All samples were found in the rock dominance zone in Gibbs plots. The Wilcox diagram associating with sodium percent with total concentration shows that, 26% of the groundwater samples fell in the field of excellent and 74% of the groundwater samples fell in the field of good to permissible for irrigational purposes. No sample fell in the doubtful to unsuitable categories. The results showed that, majority of the groundwater samples were suitable for irrigational purposes based on Residual Sodium Carbonate (RSC) and Soluble Sodium Percentage (SSP). All the samples were found in the excellent category. The Pearson correlation revealed that the majority of the parameters were positively correlated with each other.

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Hydrogeochemical monitoring of groundwater and surface water quality, East of Mount Cameroon and West of the Penda Mboko River, suitability for drinking and irrigation

Jude

Wotany

Agyingi

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Comparison of major ion compositions with World Health Organization guidelines (WHO 2017 ) was the first-hand filter to evaluate the drinking suitability. Additionally, we evaluated overall drinking water quality index (DWQI) by assessing the similarities of physicochemical parameters with WHO limits through a mathematical computation and assigning different weights (wi) and relative weights (Wi) based on their influences considered from Yi et al ( 2019 ), Marghade ( 2020 ), Verma et al ( 2020 ), and Wu et al ( 2020 ). Critical water quality parameters such as TDS, Cl, SO 4 , NO 3 , and F were allotted the maximum weight of 5, and HCO 3 was assigned the minimum weight of 1 (e.g., Vasanthavigar et al 2010 ; Tiwari et al 2017 ).…”

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Evaluation of water from Lake Coatetelco in central-south Mexico and surrounding groundwater wells for drinking and irrigation, and the possible health risks

Roy,

García-Arriola,

Selvam

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Due to an increasing reduction of hydrological resources across Mexico and their growing contamination from global warming and anthropogenic activities, this study evaluated water from the perennial Lake Coatetelco (Ca–Mg–HCO3) in tropical central-southern Mexico and groundwater (Ca–Mg–HCO3 and Na–HCO3–Cl) from the surrounding wells for drinking as well as irrigation qualities. Comparison with the WHO guidelines and the estimated water quality indices (DWQI and IWQI) grouped almost all the samples collected after the warm season rainfall in excellent and good categories (DWQI < 100) for drinking, even though fluoride remained > 1.5 mg/L in 50% samples. Except for one groundwater sample, all showed > 25% permeability (classes I and II) in Donnen classification indicating their suitability for irrigation. USSL and Wilcox classifications, however, catalogued some in the high-salinity hazard group and some as doubtful for irrigating regular plants. Samples from about 53% wells were also in high and severe restriction categories of IWQI for the irrigation. Total Hazard Quotient Index (THQI) for estimating the non-carcinogenic risk (HQfluoride > 1) showed that at least one lake water sample and 53% of groundwater might expose the adult and child population to dental and skeletal fluorosis. This water quality assessment data posterior to the rainfall season could be useful as a baseline for both the short- and long-term monitoring in attention to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 6.

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“…[23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Calculation of water quality indices from the equations below was also used to estimate the river water suitability for irrigation. 1,[30][31][32][33][34] Figure 2 Houet River and the 08 sampling points. Where SAR is the Sodium Adsorption Ratio, %Na is the percentage of soluble sodium, PI is the Permeability Index, RAM is the Magnesium Adsorption Ratio and RK is the Kelly Ratio.…”

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Suitability of urban river water for irrigation: the case of the Houet river in Burkina Faso

Zacharie¹,

Gaëtan²,

Michelle³

et al. 2022

IJH

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This study focused on the suitability of using an urban river for the irrigation of vegetable crops. The relevant urban river is Houet river located in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) receives wastewater released by a wastewater treatment and purification unit (WWTP). To do this, a diagnosis of the functioning of WWTP and an assessment of the quality of the effluents released in the river were indeed carried out. The WWTP treats wastewater from industries, households and the percolating water from the treatment of the city's sewage sludge. Water released by the WWTP has a poor physico-chemical quality and high microbiological pollution. The urban river water suitability for irrigation was carried out by taking 8 water samples from the river sections at upstream and downstream parts of the WWTP junction. The physico-chemical (pH, EC, STD, Ca2+ , Mg2+ , K+ , Na+ , Cl-, HCO3- , PO43- , NO2- , NO3- , NH4+ ), microbiological (total coliform, fecal coliform, Escherichia coli and fecal Streptococci), trace metallic elements (Ni, Cr, Zn, Cu, Al, Fe and Mn) and indices such as sodium adsorption rate (SAR), percentage of soluble sodium (%Na), permeability index (PI), magnesium adsorption ratio (RAM) and Kelly ratio (RK) were analyzed and the results compared with WHO, FAO and USSL guidelines for irrigation water. The results show that the physico-chemical parameters are in line with the WHO and FAO standards for irrigation. However, the river water is reported to have medium salinity with a slight to moderate degree of restriction for EC and STD. The concentrations of ammonium (NH4+), manganese (Mn) and nickel (Ni) in the river’s water have values above standard reference for irrigation water. This suggests (i) overuse of nitrogenous fertilizers, (ii) industrial and anthropogenic discharges directly into the river, (iii) and an incomplete treatment process of water released by the WWTP. The presence of Total Coliforms, Fecal Coliforms, Escherichia coli and Fecal Streptococci at levels of around 104 to 109 CFU/100ml, above the FAO standard (2000 CFU/100ml), indicate that the river water is probably contaminated by viruses, parasites and other pathogenic bacteria of fecal origin. Houet river water is in excellent range for irrigation according to Wilcox diagram and in the C2 S1 range of medium to good quality according to the Riverside diagram. The SAR, %Na, PI, RAM and RK indices showed that the infiltration problem issue of the river water on irrigated soils is low before its junction with the WWTP and moderate after its junction. Overall, this river water is suitable for irrigation, but the presence of bacteria, ammonium and trace metallic elements require for the regional water and agricultural authorities to (i) pay particular attention to human activities in the vicinity of the river, (ii) improve the efficiency of the wastewater treatment process at the WWTP and (iii) more strictly control fertilizers’ uses by market gardeners. This will make it possible to preserve the quality of the river’ water for the irrigation of 175 hectares of market gardens products (lettuce, parsley, pepper, mint…) using a commercial urban outland to feed an urban population estimated of one million people.

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Hydrochemical monitoring of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation use in Rapti Basin

Cited by 28 publications

References 34 publications

Hydrogeochemical monitoring of groundwater and surface water quality, East of Mount Cameroon and West of the Penda Mboko River, suitability for drinking and irrigation

Hydrogeochemical monitoring of groundwater and surface water quality, East of Mount Cameroon and West of the Penda Mboko River, suitability for drinking and irrigation

Evaluation of water from Lake Coatetelco in central-south Mexico and surrounding groundwater wells for drinking and irrigation, and the possible health risks

Suitability of urban river water for irrigation: the case of the Houet river in Burkina Faso

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