Comprehensive assessment of groundwater quality in the Prayagraj District, Ganga Basin.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization has severely impacted the world water resources especially the shallow groundwater systems. There is a need of a robust method for quantifying the water quality degradation, which is still a challenge for most of the urban centers across the world. In this study, a highly urbanized region of Ganga basin is selected to critically evaluate commonly used WQIs and compare with fuzzy modeling. A total of 28 water samples were collected from diverse sources (surface and groundwaters) in the vicinity of urban region covering an area of 216 km² during the premonsoon period. TDS, TH, NO₃^-, and F^- values were found to be above the permissible limits in 57%, 89%, 4%, and 7% samples, respectively. The WQIs (entropy and integrated) outputs were f

SUBMITTER: Kumari B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11832705 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature