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Hussain, H., Joshi, H., Singhal, D., Kumar, S., Rao, M. (2012). Development of an Index of Aquifer Water Quality within GIS Environment. Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences, 4(1), 44-50.
Hussain Musa Hussain; H. Joshi; D.C. Singhal; S. Kumar; M.S. Rao. "Development of an Index of Aquifer Water Quality within GIS Environment". Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences, 4, 1, 2012, 44-50.
Hussain, H., Joshi, H., Singhal, D., Kumar, S., Rao, M. (2012). 'Development of an Index of Aquifer Water Quality within GIS Environment', Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences, 4(1), pp. 44-50.
Hussain, H., Joshi, H., Singhal, D., Kumar, S., Rao, M. Development of an Index of Aquifer Water Quality within GIS Environment. Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012; 4(1): 44-50.

Development of an Index of Aquifer Water Quality within GIS Environment

Article 6, Volume 4, Issue 1, Winter and Spring 2012, Page 44-50  XML PDF (745.09 K)
Document Type: Original Article
Authors
Hussain Musa Hussain* 1; H. Joshi2; D.C. Singhal2; S. Kumar3; M.S. Rao3
1Engineering Collage, Kufa University,Iraq.
2Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee-247 667, India.
3National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India.
Abstract
The changes in human population often correspond with change in land use, including expansion of urban areas, agriculture and increasing industrialization, which necessitate increasing the available amount of drinking water. As the surface water sources are under the pressure of pollution, it has become necessary to use groundwater at an increasing rate. Groundwater recharge can be abundant in the alluvial plains where the urban areas are often located. Such areas can face danger of pollution of groundwater and the changes in land use are likely to result in change in groundwater quality. Keeping these aspects in view, it was planned to development a groundwater water quality index in the Ganga-Yamuna interfluve area of northern India, The objective of the present study is to develop the Index of Aquifer Water Quality (IAWQ) inside the Geographic information system (GIS) environment, which can be used by the field investigators and modeler’s in assessing the groundwater vulnerability. The formula to estimate the IAWQ index is adopted from the procedure suggested Melloul and Collin (1998). The procedure developed for this involves weights assigned to these 8 parameters as per their analytical hierarchy in violating the (drinking water) standards and not as an arbitrary means (as taken by Melloul and Collin). The suggested procedure can be extending to include more number of chemical parameters as necessitate in individual case studies. In the modified procedure presented in the present study, the number of measured chemical parameters n is taken as 8 (Cd, Mn, Pb, Fe, NO3-, Total Alkalinity, TDS and Ca2+) as against n=2 (chloride and nitrate) as taken in the Melloul and Collin’s work.
Keywords
GIS; Water Quality Index; Hydrogeology; Groundwater
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