AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 18 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW210020
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Physical and Chemical Quality Boundaries of Ground  Water in Kanchipuram District of Tamil Nadu, India

Mefleh S. Hamideen1* Ananthanarayanan Chandrasekaran2
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1 Department of Physics and Basic Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Technology Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan
2 Department of Physics, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai - 603110, Tamilnadu, India
AJWEP 2021, 18(2), 67–75; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW210020
Submitted: 21 October 2020 | Revised: 25 March 2021 | Accepted: 25 March 2021 | Published: 29 April 2021
© 2021 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/ )
Abstract

Water is fundamental for all living life forms for their living and metabolic cycles. The purpose of  the current investigation is to gauge a few water quality boundaries in the Kanchipuram region of Tamil Nadu,  India and dissect the information by multivariate statistical methods. So as to evaluate the ground water quality,  boundaries, for example, pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), electrical conductivity (EC), chloride (Cl), sulphate  (SO4), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), nitrate (NO3), sodium (Na), potassium (K), carbonate (CO3) and hydrogen  carbonate (HCO3) were resolved utilising distinctive systematic techniques. The after effects of physicochemical  properties were contrasted and recommended limits given by WHO (2004) and BIS (2012). The acquired outcome  uncovers that the decided water quality boundaries are not exactly as far as possible. Measurable methods, for  example, Pearson connection, principal and cluster examinations were applied among the ground water information  to consider the relation between them.

Keywords
Groundwater
sulphate (SO4)
nitrate (NO3)
quality boundaries.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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