Development of information system for evaluating ground water quality in an urban city of eastern India.

Abstract

Ground water is the major source of water supply in urban India. Understanding and assessment of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation uses is therefore imperative to maintain its quality in any fast growing city like Bhubaneswar in Eastern India. A framework was developed in Visual Basic 6.0 software to generate quantifiable estimation of water use for drinking as well as irrigation purpose using different water quality parameters. Different forms have been prepared for water quality assessment and showing standard values for water quality parameters. Twenty different water quality parameters for drinking and nineteen water quality parameters for irrigation purposes were analyzed using 55 water samples of the study region. The total weightage of water quality parameters were analyzed in this software module. Different forms were created for entering the water quality parameters for evaluation. Formats have also been prepared for depicting desirable limits of different water quality parameters for indented purposes. This software module can be used as a ready-made package for assessing characteristic of water quality parameters for drinking as well as irrigation purposes.