Abstract: Rural India has more than 700 million people residing in about 1.42 million habitations spread over 1.5 diverse ecological regions. Meeting the drinking water needs of such a large population can be a difficult task.In rural India, village ponds and groundwater well have been playing very vital role in socio, cultural, economic and environment development. These Ponds are the common property of Indian villages and support the livelihoods of the marginalized community in rural, urban, coastal and tribal areas of India.Due to contaminations of these drinking water sources in villages, around 38 million Indians are affected by waterborne diseases annually; 1.6 million children are estimated to die of Diarrhea alone.Indians are at risk due to excess fluoride and 10 million due to excess arsenic in groundwater.Hardness and Chloride are also deteriorating the water supply lines and structures along with few reported health issues like hypertension and bone disease in rural India.This is an effort to characterize the drinking water quality available in the village water sources like ponds and deep wells.A case study of village & P O Kharak Kalan District Bhiwani, Haryana.
Keywords: Contamination, Drinking Water Quality, Chloride, waterborne diseases.
Title: CHARACTERIZATION OF RURAL DRINKING WATER SOURCES IN BHIWANI DISTRICT, HARYANA: A CASE STUDY
Author: Prof. S K Singh, Lokesh Kumar
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1226 (online), ISSN 2348-1218 (print)
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