Study of ground water quality of Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh, India

Ground water is one of the major alternative resources of the drinking water in Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh, India. For present ground water study, Bhopal city is divided in to four corridors. North west, north east, south east, south west part of Bhopal city considered as corridor I, II, III and IV respectively. Nineteen monitoring locations were selected around at Bhopal city assessed for ground water quality for human consumption. Study of all physico -chemical parameters of ground water was carried out during different four quarters of year 2016 to 2018. All monitoring was done as per standard guidelines followed by Central Pollution Control Board and analyzed by standard methods. It is concluded that high contamination in ground waters observed in Corridor II as compare to three corridors of Bhopal city. Govindpura industrial area, transport, MSW dumping site, dense vehicle zone and anthropogenic activities are main reason of high contamination observed in corridor II of Bhopal city. All activities, which carried out on the ground level have direct or indirect impact on the groundwater whether associated with urban, agricultural activities large scale concentrated source of pollutants such as industrial discharge, chemicals and hazardous are source of ground water pollutants.