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Fluoride Contamination in the Ground Water of Two  Villages of Visakhapatnam Industrial Area

G.V.S.R. Pavan Kumar1* ,  Yerra Bharath2 ,  M. Komal Avinash2
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1 Department of Chemistry, M V G R College of Engineering, Vizianagaram – 535005 (A.P.), India
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, M V G R College of Engineering, Vizianagaram – 535005 (A.P.) India
AJWEP 2017, 14(3), 91–101; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-170030
Submitted: 21 March 2016 | Revised: 19 May 2017 | Accepted: 19 May 2017 | Published: 5 July 2017
© 2017 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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Abstract

The present work of the authors is aimed at the assessment of water quality with special reference to  fluoride contamination in the two selected villages Mulagada and Yeduruvanipalem. These two villages are situated  in the industrial area of Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. These two villages are surrounded by  industries like BHPV, HPCL, Zinc smelter and Coromondel fertilizers. During a preliminary survey in the two  villages it was found that the residents of the two villages were suffering from dental flourisis. In view of this,  the authors carried out experiments on the determination of physico-chemical characterization. The results were  compared with BIS standards. In the two villages, concentration of fluoride was found to be in the range 1.432- 2.944 mg/L. Water quality index (WQI) for the two villages was found to be 101.1 for the village Mulagada and  87.5 for the village Yeduruvanipalem. A strong correlation between phosphate and fluoride in the water of the  village Mulagada was observed. From the results obtained it was inferred that the water of the two villages is  unfit for human consumption

Keywords
Water quality assessment
water quality index
fluoride contamination
Visakhapatnam
ground water.
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The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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