Abstract: Water is a basic element of social and economic infrastructure and is essential for healthy society and sustainable development. Due to rapid increase in density of population, fast urbanization, industrialization and agricultural use, the demand of water is increasing day by day. As a result, surface water and ground water level is decreasing. Pollution and increased demand have made good quality water scarcer and expensive. Groundwater is the favourite alternative and is facing threats due to anthropogenic activities, which has lead to deterioration in ground water quality. The possibility of ground water contamination is due to the mixing up of toxic chemicals, fertilizers, waste disposed from industrial sites etc. Hence monitoring of ground water quality has become indispensable. GIS not only facilitates data capture and processing but also serve as powerful computational tools that facilitate multimap integrations. In this project ground water quality analysis was carried out for Chavara Taluk in Kollam District. It was reported that groundwater and surface water around the study area was affected due to effluents from the industry. Water samples were collected from all around the taluk, and the strategically analysed results will be presented in a GIS based water quality mapping suggesting remedial measures for the study area.
Keywords: GIS, Ground water, Mapping, Water Quality.
Title: Study of Ground Water Pollution around an Industry Using GIS
Author: Geeja K George, AkhilaSree D G, Lakshmi Chandran M, Reshma P R, Gintai Siga
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering Research
ISSN 2348-7607 (Online)
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