title: Assessment of water quality index of bore well water samples from some selected locations of South Gujarat, India.
abstract: The present study calculates the water quality index (WQI) of some selected sites from South Gujarat (India) and assesses the impact of industries, agriculture and human activities. Chemical parameters were monitored for the calculation of WQI of some selected bore well samples. The results revealed that the WQI of the some bore well samples exceeded acceptable levels due to the dumping of wastes from municipal, industrial and domestic sources and agricultural runoff as well. Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) was implemented for interpolation of each water quality parameter (pH, EC, alkalinity, total hardness, chloride, nitrate and sulphate) for the entire sampled area. The bore water is unsuitable for drinking and if the present state of affairs continues for long, it may soon become an ecologically dead bore.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, N.M. College of Agriculture Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396 450, Gujarat, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tripathi
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bafna
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D007194:India; D060753:Water Quality; D060986:Water Wells / Q000032:analysis*