Impacts Of Industrial Effluents On Ground Water Quality Of Hattar Industrial Estate And Its Associated Health Risks
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2016
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J. Sc. & Tech. Univ. Peshawar
Abstract
Current study was under taken to analyze underground water of the Hattar Industrial Estate (HIE) and that of reference areas for physio-chemical and biological parameters and to determine health impacts associated with the contamination of the water bodies.For this purpose, random sampling technique is used. A total of thirty-five samples of underground water were collected from the source and user points, and were analyzed for physio-chemical i.e. Temperature, pH, Electric Conductivity (EC), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Total Alkalinity, Ca-hardness, Mg-hardness, Total Hardness (TH), Chlorine (Cl), Nitrates (NO3). The results were compared with World Health Organization (WHO) standards and National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) that showed that most of the parameters were within the prescribed limits. It is concluded that water quality of industrial area is as good as the control site because there is no significance difference in the water quality of industrial area as compared with that of control site.