• Dr. Ashok Kumar

It is common knowledge that fresh water, a finite and fragile resource is increasingly becoming scarce day-by-day. According to a report of Global Environment Outlook, the global fresh water consumption has raised six fold between 1900 and 1995 even more than twice the rate of population growth. To provide safe drinking water, it is required to plant and design a project with economy and safety. Planning is all about dealing with various kinds of data, to analyze them and to make a suitable decision. This study is a comparative analysis of physicochemical and bacteriological quality of drinking water intake in urban area of Patna District, Bihar state. A total of 68 drinking water samples randomly collected from 41 hand pumps, l4 municipal supply tap, 11 boring water and 2 well from 15 different locations of urban area of Patna District. Samples were collected aseptically in 60ml sterile plastic container for bacteriological and in l liter sterile plastic bottle for physicochemical parameter like pH, Total Hardness, Dissolved Oxygen, Biological Oxygen Demand, etc and compared with BIS (IS -10500). MPN test was applied to detect the presence of coliform in the drinking water samples. The total coliform count was detected in 57 out of 68 water samples. Most of the water samples were shown compromising physicochemical parameters. Total hardness (TH) is above the permissible limits detected in 60 out of 68 samples. Dissolved oxygen (D.O.) was also recorded below the standard for most of the samples. This results indicate that drinking water is highly in jeopardy to bacterial contamination. Construction of septic tanks near with boring and drinking water supply line short distance between water supply network and swage supply line poor constructed well head, cross contamination with waste water, Leakage in pipe line are the main cause of water contamination.

: Physicochemical, Parameters, Global Environment, Outlook, Drinking water

"PHYSICOCHEMICAL EXAMINATION AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF DRINKING WATER SAMPLES FROM URBAN AREA OF PATNA DISTRICT, BIHAR, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.1326-1333, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903K89.pdf

"PHYSICOCHEMICAL EXAMINATION AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF DRINKING WATER SAMPLES FROM URBAN AREA OF PATNA DISTRICT, BIHAR, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp1326-1333, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903K89.pdf