• Poonam Khare
• Anuja Agarwal
• Vaishali
• Bhupendra Kumar Sharma

Revolutionary advancement in human life style through civilization, industrialization, modernization and globalization created environmental imbalance resulting increased pollution of natural resources and challenging the earth’s existence. A valuable component of hydrological cycle is water used for drinking and to solve other domestic purpose. It is necessary that everyone would be known about the water quality. Keeping in view, the presented study is aimed to access water quality of district Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India by calculating Water Quality Index (WQI) using data obtained after analysing ground water (60 samples) for physicochemical properties as pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), total hardness (TH), major anions like bicarbonate (HCO3-), chloride (Cl-), sulphate (SO4-2), nitrate (NO3-) fluoride (F-) and some cations such as calcium (Ca+2), magnesium (Mg+2), sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) for drinking purpose suggested by Bureau of Indian standard. Water quality ascertained on the basis of WQI values that varied from 48.83 to 118.76 indicating presence of mostly good water in the studied area. Water was discovered to be alkaline and contaminated with bicarbonate, nitrate and magnesium ions with high level of TDS, EC and TH. The suitability of drinking water of Saharanpur district was also described by computing percent compliance. The simple correlation coefficient value was computed using regression method to predict correlation among the studied variables of physicochemical parameters. Drinking water quality must be excellent for healthy environment but most of area has good water and some part was traced with poor water while none has excellent. It was observed that after treating with chitosan beads as an adsorbent, the physical properties as pH, TDS, EC, TH were found to be reduced by 20-40 % that is an indicative of improvement of water quality for drinking.

Physicochemical, parameter, compliance, correlation, WQI.

"Assessment and minimisation of pollution level of ground water for drinking purpose", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.952-961, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908D17.pdf

"Assessment and minimisation of pollution level of ground water for drinking purpose", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp952-961, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908D17.pdf