Groundwater quality assessment for drinking and agriculture purposes in Abhar city, Iran
Khadijeh Jafari,
Farzaneh Baghal Asghari,
Edris Hoseinzadeh,
Zahra Heidari,
Majid Radfard,
Hossein Najafi Saleh,
Hossein Faraji
Affiliations
Khadijeh Jafari
Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Farzaneh Baghal Asghari
Department of Environmental Health, School of public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Edris Hoseinzadeh
Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Zahra Heidari
Bachelor of Environmental Health, Department of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Majid Radfard
Health Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran
Hossein Najafi Saleh
Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran; Corresponding authors.
Hossein Faraji
Students Research Committee, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; Corresponding authors.
The main objective of this study is to assess the quality of groundwater for drinking consume and agriculture purposes in abhar city. The analytical results shows higher concentration of electrical conductivity (100%), total hardness (66.7%), total dissolved solids (40%), magnesium (23%), Sulfate (13.3%) which indicates signs of deterioration as per WHO and Iranian standards for drinking consume. Agricultural index, in terms of the hardness index, 73.3% of the samples in hard water category and 73.3% in sodium content were classified as good. Therefore, the main problem in the agricultural sector was the total hardness Water was estimated. For the RSC index, all 100% of the samples were desirable. In the physicochemical parameters of drinking water, 100% of the samples were undesirable in terms of electrical conductivity and 100% of the samples were desirable for sodium and chlorine parameters. Therefore, the main water problem in Abhar is related to electrical conductivity and water total hardness. Keywords: Groundwater, Agricultural indicator, Drinking indicator, Abhar, Iran
