Groundwater quality assessment using gis and inverse mass balance modeling of vattamalaikarai river basin tamil nadu india

Abstract

Water its abundance or scarcity directly affects the quality of newlinehuman life Water is a renewable resource and the per capita availability in newlineIndia is reasonably good Owing to its inequitable distribution in time and newlinespace and indiscriminate exploitation and wastage there has come to be its newlineacute shortage in many regions of India The increasing demands for clean newlinewater on the one hand and the decrease in the availability and deteriorating newlinequality on the other have become matters of serious concern Recognizing newlinethis particular concern importance has been given in this study to the newlineunderstanding and evaluation of spatial distribution extent mobility and newlinequality of water resources in the Vattamalaikarai River Basin Tamil Nadu newlineIndia The Vattamalaikarai River Basin covering an area of 436 5 km2 falls newlinebetween the latitudes 1053N and 1101N and the longitudes 7715E and newline7745E newline newline