Monitoring of Groundwater Quality in Arsenic and Salinity Prone Areas of Jashore, Bangladesh

Abstract

The groundwater contaminationby arsenic isa large-scale pollutionin drinking water history. Safe water supply is a big challenge dueto critical hydrogeological situation and water quality problems in this area. Theanalytical resultsshowthat a range of pH, TDS, chloride, total alkalinity, total hardness, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron and arsenic were found between 7.50-7.23, 504.00-201.00 mg/L, 90.30-31.43 mg/L, 410.81-174.31mg/L, 616.47-202.97 mg/L, 52.59-13.28 mg/L, 17.13-2.87 mg/L, 108.57-44.53 mg/L, 83.87-22.29 mg/L, 1.78-0.01 mg/L, 11.78-1.45 mg/L, 0.42-0.02 mg/L, respectively. This study will help making a future plan for groundwater quality monitoring and its hydrogeological application for safe water source identification

Keywords

• arsenic
• groundwater contamination
• arsenic mitigation; salinity
• water quality.