Abstract
The present study the quality of drinking water supplied to the (a) Nanded Multispeciality Hospital (b) Madhuvanti Society (c) Oracle College (d) Sarang Society (e) Anlmc Church at Nanded City, through tap, which includes tests for temperature, pH value, total solids, total suspended solids, hardness, acidity, alkalinity, chloride, chlorine, jar test, BOD and DO. Pune is one of the most important city in the state of Maharashtra which has near to Mumbai A water quality standard is a rule or law comprised of the uses to be made of a water body or segment and the water quality criteria necessary to protect that uses. The average temperature, concentration of pH, turbidity, TDS (Total Dissolved Solids), TSS (Total Suspended Solids), DO (Dissolved Oxygen), BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand), total hardness, alkalinity and chloride are found to be 27.38 ⁰C, 7.37, 2.438 NTU, 156.8 mg/l, 2.653 mg/l, 42.156 mg/l, 3.6 mg/l, 8.65 mg/l, 102.3mg/l and 21.2 mg/l respectively. The results obtained from the water quality criteria parameter are within the drinking water standard. (IS: 10500).