Ground Water Quality Test in Punjab Doaba Region

Abstract

An increase in groundwater stress in Bist-Doab region of Punjab due to increase in irrigation demand, domestic requirement and reduction in surface water-bodies has caused a decline in groundwater level. These have resulted in a large amount of groundwater abstraction per unit area in central region of Bist-Doab, i.e., Jalandhar and Kapurthala districts. For improving the groundwater resources, it becomes vital to understand the availability of water resources and water level. In the present paper, an overview on groundwater resources in Beas-Sutlej Doab region is discussed. Groundwater is well thought-out to be the most vital natural and fresh resource on earth which is used for drinking and irrigation purposes. Groundwater quality studies become unavoidable since its poor quality may badly affect its users. Various processes affecting the water quality may be natural like evaporation and weathering and or anthropogenic like agricultural activities, domestic-industrial effluents and minor amount of atmospheric fallout. In this project we have analyses and tested the data for groundwater including its characteristic and constituents present in the water sample collected from the different districts of Doaba region, Punjab. We have performed experiments on the sample collected from the districts i.e. Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshehar and Kapurthala. The aim of the experiments was to find out the entity and quantity of constituents involved in the samples of ground water collected from these districts. The methodology followed in performing experiments were traditional laboratorial method consisting of tests performed on every individual constituent with regards to Physio-chemical, Heavy Metals, and Conductivity and for complete ingredients present in water sample collected.