This document discusses groundwater pollution in India. It provides background on groundwater hydrology and outlines the major sources and types of groundwater pollution including agricultural, industrial, municipal, and geogenic sources. It examines the current status of groundwater pollution across India, noting various contaminants that exceed safety limits in many states. The document also discusses measures to control groundwater pollution including artificial recharge, treatment methods, and regulations. It concludes that scientific data and implementation of protection laws are needed to ensure safe drinking water.
Groundwater Contamination and preventionMohit Dwivedi
Groundwater is water present below the ground surface that saturates the pore space in the subsurface.
At least 50% of the world population depends on groundwater as a source of drinking water.
Other uses of groundwater includes Irrigation of crops, Industrial uses etc.
Groundwater is a part of natural water cycle therefore, it can spread throughout the cycle and if contaminated, can cause damage to other entities ( Sea life, lakes, human health etc)
Groundwater can be polluted / contaminated as a result of HUMAN activity and Natural conditions.
Contaminations found in the groundwater cover a broad range of physical, chemical (Organic & Inorganic), bacterial and radioactive parameters.
Groundwater Contamination and preventionMohit Dwivedi
Groundwater is water present below the ground surface that saturates the pore space in the subsurface.
At least 50% of the world population depends on groundwater as a source of drinking water.
Other uses of groundwater includes Irrigation of crops, Industrial uses etc.
Groundwater is a part of natural water cycle therefore, it can spread throughout the cycle and if contaminated, can cause damage to other entities ( Sea life, lakes, human health etc)
Groundwater can be polluted / contaminated as a result of HUMAN activity and Natural conditions.
Contaminations found in the groundwater cover a broad range of physical, chemical (Organic & Inorganic), bacterial and radioactive parameters.
Fluoride and Arsenic in Ground water.
Causes for groundwater pollution.
Fluoride in groundwater , sources for fluoride , Health implications.
Arsenic in groundwater , sources for arsenic , Health implications.
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Fluoride and Arsenic in Ground water.
Causes for groundwater pollution.
Fluoride in groundwater , sources for fluoride , Health implications.
Arsenic in groundwater , sources for arsenic , Health implications.
The water contamination is a widely common problem relating to the field of environmental and water resource engineering. It requires very sophisticated techniques to prevent the occurrence of contamination in ground or shallow water resources by all available prevention methods. This research discusses the different sources of ground water contamination and the effects of contaminated water on the health and environment. In addition to some details about the protection methods to keep water usable and finally recommendations and conclusion.
This presentation deals with the recent advancement in the field of ground water sampling and analysis technique and water born survey as well as Indian scenario to interpret.
Rainwater Harvesting in Flouride Affected Area in Jamui, Biharijtsrd
Many people use to drink rainwater, even in areas where clean municipal water is available. Domestic rainwater is defined here as any water collected from building roof tops subsequent to rainfall events and stored by households for later use. Rain water may easily become contaminated on storage unless correct procedures for collection and storage are made. Rainwater may provide the best source of domestic water in areas affected by salinity, high fluoride or areas affected by pollution from various sources. Fluorides are widely distributed in nature and it is estimated to constitute about 0.32 of the earth's crust. Water forms the most important component of eco system therefore any imbalance either in term of its amount or presence of added impurities to it can harm the whole eco system Ranjana, 2009 Nearly 12 million tons of fluoride deposits on the earth's crust are found in India. These fluoride deposits are the reason for fluorosis in 17 states of India UNICEF, 1999 . Rainwater has been found in some cases to contain bacteria, or trace metals, or both. the public to limit rainwater use to outdoor purposes, and to laundry and toilet flushing. In our study, over 12 months, rainwater samples were collected around tested for E. coli and total coliforms. Of many samples tested, more than 50 contained E. coli. The health guideline for E. coli is 0 100 mL for drinking water. A survey on household drinking water choice was undertaken across the metropolitan area. The aim was to determine drinking water choices and to understand the driving forces behind drinking potentially contaminated rainwater in a city where clean municipal water is supplied. The investigation concluded that a higher proportion of households use rainwater as their primary source of drinking water. It was found that a higher proportion of households are using domestic filtration systems to improve municipal water quality. Opposition to municipal water fluoridation was reported, drinking water preferences. Sanjay Khanna | Dr. Arvind Kumar Nag "Rainwater Harvesting in Flouride Affected Area in Jamui, Bihar" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26819.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/enviormental-science/26819/rainwater-harvesting-in-flouride-affected-area-in-jamui-bihar/-sanjay-khanna
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1. GOVIND BALLABH PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
Groundwater Pollution : Emerging Challenge
In India
Collage of Basic Science and Humanities
Department of Environmental Sciences
Presented by,
Anusha B V
52717
M.Sc (Environmental
Science)
2. CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Groundwater Hydrology
3. Groundwater pollution
4. Present status of Groundwater pollution in India
5. Attenuation of Groundwater pollution
6. Control measures
7. Institutions for groundwater management
8. Research paper
9. Conclusion
10. References
3. Earth is called “WATER PLANET”.
70% earth is made of water.
Water is an important vital energy
force driving all the physical ,
chemical and biological processes on
earth.
Earths atmosphere consists of 0.02-
4%.
INTRODUCTION
4.
5. Sustainable development and efficient management of
water is an increasingly complex challenge in India.
Increasing population, growing urbanization and rapid
industrialization combined with the need for raising
agricultural production generates competing demands for
water.
Ground water has steadily emerged as the backbone of
India’s agriculture and drinking water security.
Contribution of ground water is nearly 62% in irrigation,
85% in rural water supply and 50% in urban water
supply.(World Bank ,March 2010)
7. At present India’s population is 1 Billion and is expected to
increase 1.7 Billion by 2050.
India has over 30 million groundwater extraction points.
15% of the Groundwater in India is overexploited.
94% of the Indian population have access to improper water
resource.( CGWB 2017)
75% of the Rural population depend on Groundwater for
drinking.
If current trends continue, within 20 years 60% of all aquifers
in India will be in a critical condition,” according to a 2012
World Bank report.
8. Source: Manual on Artificial Recharge of Ground water CGWB(Sep 2007)
Per capita water availability in India dropped almost 15% over a decade from 1,816 cu.m in
2001 to 1,545 cu.m in 2011
[ www.indiaspend.com]
10. • Groundwater is the water contained beneath the surface in rocks
and soil, and is the water that accumulates underground in
aquifers.
• The top of ground water is called the water table.
• Between the water table and the land surface is the unsaturated
zone or vadose zone.
• The water table can be very close to the surface (within a few
feet), or very deep (up to several hundred feet).
What is GROUNDWATER?
11.
12.
13. India is occupied by a variety of hard and fissured formations, including
crystalline, trappean basalt and consolidated sedimentary (including
carbonate rocks), with patches of semiconsolidated sediments in narrow
intra- cratonic basins.
The central part of the country is occupied by alluvial formation
stretching from Rajasthan in the west to Brahmaputra valley in the east.
Rugged topography, compact and fissured nature of the rock formations
combine to give rise to discontinuous aquifers, with moderate to poor
yield potentials.
17. Groundwater pollution?
When contaminants in groundwater exceed the levels
deemed safe for the use of a specific aquifer use the ground-
water is considered polluted. [ Environmental encyclopedia]
18. SINO Pollutants Major species
1. Pathogens bacteria & viruses
2. Trace metals Lead, Mercury, Arsenic,
Cadmium, Copper,
Chromium & Nickel
3. Inorganics SO4, Chloride, Na, K,
NO3
4. Organics petroleum derivatives,
pesticides
Major Groundwater Pollutants
19. SI
NO
POLLUTANT ACUTE CHRONIC
1. Nitrates Methenoglobinemia Carcinogenic as it
forms Nitrosamine
2. Fluoride Gastric pain, nausea,
vomiting, and headaches
Dental Fluorosis
Skeletal Fluorosis
3. Arsenic Nausea, vomiting,
abdominal pain, and
severe diarrhea.
Carcinogenic
4. Iron Haemorrhagic necrosis
and sloughing of areas of
mucosa
genetic disorder
4. Pathogens Diseases -
20.
21. SOURCES OF GROUNDWATER POLLUTION
1. Point sources: originates from a single location
example: storage tanks, landfills , pipeline releases
2. Non-point sources: Agricultural runoff , seepage.
23. 1. MUNICIPAL SOURCES
SI
NO
TYPES SOURCES EFFECTS
1. SEWER
LEAKAGE
Defective sewer pipe, breakage
by tree roots, Rupture from
heavy load, earthquakes, loss of
foundation support
High concentration of BOD, COD,
Nitrate, Organic chemicals, Bacteria
and Heavy metals.
2. LIQUID
WASTE
Domestic wastes , Runoff Bacteria, Viruses, Trace elements and
heavy metals, inorganic and organic
chemicals
3. SOLID
WASTES
Landfills Leachate-iron, manganese, nitrate,
trace elements
24. 2.INDUSTRIAL SOURCES
SI
NO
TYPES SOURCES EFFECTS
1. LIQUID
WASTES
Industrial waste water discharge into pits,
ponds, lagoons, deep wells injection.
Hazardous and toxic industrial
wastes
2. TANK
AND
PIPELINE
LEAKAGE
Gasoline stations, Fuel oil tanks Petroleum
products from pipelines and tanks
Immiscible liquids like oil ,
Liquid radioactive wastes
3. MINING
ACTIVITI
ES
Coal, Phosphate and Uranium mines
Stone, Sand and Gravel quarries
Low pH, Iron
25. 3.AGRICULTURAL SOURCES
SI
NO
TYPES SOURCES EFFECTS
1. AGRICULTURAL
RUNOFF
surface channels or joins the
underlying water
Salinity, Bicarbonate, Sulphate,
Chlorides, Nitrates
2. ANIMAL WASTES Waste from slaughter houses Salts, organic loads ,bacteria , Nitrate
3. FERTILIZER AND
SOIL
AMENDMENTS
• Leachate of Phosphate and
Potassium fertilizers
• Leachate of soil amendments
like lime, gypsum, Sulphur
Increases salinity of soil
4. PESTICIDES,
INSECTICIDES
AND HERBICIDES
Leachate of pesticides, insecticides
and herbicides
Affects portability of water
26. SI
NO
SOURCES EFFECTS
1. SPILLS AND
SURFACE
DISCHARGE
• Dumping of fluids on ground, flushing hazardous and
flammable liquids into water.
• Washing aircraft with solvents and spills of fuel at airports
can form a layer of hydrocarbons floating on the water
table.
2. SURFACE WATER Polluted surface water bodies that contributes to groundwater
recharge.
3. SALT WATER
INTRUSION
Salinity of groundwater
4. MISCELLANEOUS
29. • IWT’s 632 groundwater quality districts, only 59 are above BIS
limits.
• Fluoride concentration in groundwater exceeds the permissible
limit across the country from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar to
Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
30. The yellow and red areas
below indicate places where
chlorine, fluoride, iron,
arsenic, nitrate, and/or
electrical conductivity exceed
national standards.(2013)
33. Arsenic Poisoning
• Millions of people in Bihar are showing symptoms of arsenic
poisoning, which is linked to cancer, due to consumption of
contaminated drinking water
• 17 of Bihar's 38 districts have groundwater with arsenic concentrations
above the permissible limit.
34. • Hand pumps in some parts, have been found to have severe arsenic
poisoning with concentrations above 1,500 parts per billion.
• According to the international agency for research on cancer, its
presence in inorganic compounds is highly toxic and carcinogenic.
35. WHY NOW?
• The cause of the upsurge in arsenic concentration is the
overuse of groundwater for irrigation and drinking, which
happens when withdrawal rates exceed recharge rate.
• There is no law to check excessive groundwater withdrawal.
• Overuse changes the chemistry of the aquifer.
36. • Arsenic chemistry –Arsenic is harmless when it forms
insoluble conjugate with iron called arsenopyrite. It splits
due to overuse, contaminating the groundwater with a
soluble ionic form of arsenic that has since been
consumed by millions of people for decades.
• In India, arsenic concentration is particularly high in and
around the Ganges delta in eastern and northeastern India,
affecting the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand,
Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Chhattisgarh.
• This is due to silt from the Himalayas containing
arsenopyrite.
38. •Pollutants in groundwater tend to be removed or
reduced in concentration with time and with
distance travelled.
•The rate of pollution attenuation depends on the
type of pollutant and on the local hydrogeologic
situation.
41. 1. Artificial Groundwater recharge
2. Rainwater Harvesting
3. Reverse Osmosis (RO)
4. Following recommended dosage of fertilizers, crop rotation, proper
timing of fertilizer application, and use of organic manure instead of
chemical fertilizers.
5. Household arsenic treatment methods are the ferric chloride
coagulation system
43. SI
NO INSTITUTIONS ROLES
1. Central Water
Commission
Initiating and coordinating schemes for the
conservation and utilization of water resources in
collaboration with state government and monitoring
water quality.
2. Central Ground
Water Board
Developing and disseminating technology related to
sustainable use of groundwater, monitoring and
implementing policies for the sustainable
management of groundwater resources.
44. SI
NO
INSTITUTIONS ROLES
3. Central Ground
Water Authority
Constituted under Section 3(3) of the
Environment(Protection) Act, 1986 to regulate
and control development and management of
groundwater resources, can resort penal
actions and issue necessary regulatory
directives.
4. Central Pollution
Control Board
Implementation of the Water( Prevention and
Control of Pollution ) Act, 1974 which seeks
to restore water quality
Source : Ministry of Water Resources; Lok Sabha Question 2157, March 10, 2015; PRS
45.
46. OBJECTIVE
1. To develop eco-friendly and low cost technique to mitigate the
arsenic contamination.
2. Stimulation of the indigenous groundwater bacteria for
bioremediation of arsenic toxicity.
3. Evaluate isolated bacteria for resistance of other heavy metals such
as Cr(IV), Ni(II), Co(II), Pb (II), Cu(II), Hg(II), Ag(I) and Cd(II).
47. Materials and methods
1.Sample collection
2.Evaluation of total arsenic in water samples
3.Isolation of arsenic resistant bacteria
4.Evaluation of the MIC value
5.Cellular and morphological characterization
48. 6. Biochemical analysis of the isolated strain.
7. Physiological characterization of the isolated strains
8. pH and temperature optimization
9. Screening of arsenic transforming bacteria by microplate
screening assay
10. Molecular characterization
11. Effect of As on the growth of isolates.
12. Heavy metal tests.
49. SINO Parameters AK1 AK9
1. MIC value 13mM 15mM
2. Morphology Gram negative
coccus
Gram negative
bacillus
3. pH 7 7
4. Temperature (max growth) 30ºC 30ºC
5. Nucleic acid concentration 60ng/µl 160ng/µl
6. Phylogeny Psuedomonas extremorientalis
(99% similarity)
7. Doubling time Absence
of As
1.56h 1.176h
Presence
of As
2.02h 1.447h
RESULTS
50.
51.
52.
53.
54. CONCLUSION
1. Two prominent arsenic oxidizing bacterial strains AK1 and AK9 belong to genus
Pseudomonas has been reported and isolated from middle gangetic plain and both
isolates AK1 and AK9 were able to transform As(V) to As(III).
2. They showed complete aerobic reduction of As(V) after 48 h of incubation.
3. AK1 and AK9, show optimum growth at pH 7.0 and temperature 30ºC.
4. The doubling time of the AK1 decreases while it increases in case of AK9 in the
presence of As(III) which indicates that AK9 was more resistant to As(III) than AK1.
5. AK1and AK9, were also resistance to Pb(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) and Cr(IV) within range
of 4–8 mm.
56. 1. Need for Scientific data- Chemistry of Pollutants in
groundwater.
2. Water quality analysis data which includes fertilizers,
pesticides and other organic pollutants.
3. Health impact assessment.
4. Formulation and implementation of laws for protections
and conservation of groundwater.
5. Providing safe drinking water .
57.
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