Comparative analysis of ground water in Jalore District in the year 2022 and 2023

Abstract

In this paper seven ground water parameters for the villages of various tehsils of Jalore District has been studied and analyzed. An effort has been made to explore the various parameters of ground water i.e. Chloride, Fluoride, Total Hardness, Nitrate, pH and TDS. Ground water samples are collected in 2022 and 2023 from one town of each tehsil of Jalore district. In the next section of this paper analysis of experimental data has been discussed. In this section the experimental results are compared with previous data collected from National Rural Drinking Water Programme. Analysis of data shows that the water parameters are too far from the permissible limit. This paper concludes that Fluoride, Nitrate and TDS are surpassing as far as possible from the permissible limit. After analyzing the data it has been found that the ground water of study area is not suitable for domestic purpose and even it is not good for irrigation also. And some water treatment is recommended to save the life of gentry of Jalore district. The study area is full of limestone, Granite, building stone, rock and desert. The present experiments will help in the improvement of drinking water quality.