Ground Water Quality at Ghazipur City of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

The ground water is the main source of fresh water in this small city of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. The water samples were collected from eight sites twice, once in month of November 2010 and other in February 2011. Physico-chemical parameters viz., colour, odour, electrical conductivity (E.C.) total dissolved solid (TDS), hardness, chloride, calcium, total alkalinity and phosphate were analyzed. In some of the samples water impart colour and odour. The TDS value ranged from 240 to 1690 mgl^-1 in November sample and from 280 to 1420 mgl^-1 in February sample. Total hardness was higher than prescribed by various standards, this show that water in entire city is moderately hard to hard. The chloride contents were higher and ranged from 116 to 303 mgl^-1 in November sample and from 202 to 484 mgl^-1 in February sample. E.C. ranged from 0.34 to 2.65 μ siemens cm^-1 in November sample and from 0.24 to 1.62 μ siemens cm^-1 in February sample. The phosphate contents were below the detectable limit. In most of the cases the average value of parameters were lower in November sample than February samples, except TDS and E.C., probably due to the dilution of underground water during rain.