ObjectiveThis study aims at assessing the groundwater quality of the three districts of Eastern Terai region of Nepal viz. Morang, Jhapa, Sunsari using physicochemical characteristics and statistical approach so that possible contamination of water reservoir can be understood. pH, temperature, conductivity, turbidity, color, total dissolved solids, fluorides, ammonia, nitrates, chloride, total hardness, calcium hardness, calcium, magnesium, total alkalinity, iron, manganese, arsenic have to be analyzed to know the present status of groundwater quality.ResultsResults revealed that the value of analyzed parameters were within the acceptable limits for drinking water recommended by World Health Organization except for pH, turbidity, ammonia and iron. As per Nepal Drinking Water Quality Standards, fluoride and manganese too were not complying with the permissible limit. Electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, chloride, total hardness, calcium hardness, manganese, and total alkalinity show good positive correlation with major water quality parameters. Calcium, magnesium, total hardness, calcium hardness and total alkalinity greatly influences total dissolved solids and electrical conductivity. ANOVA, Tukey, and clustering highlight the significance of three districts. Groundwater can be considered safe, but there is always a chance of contamination through chemical wastes in the heavily industrialized area of Morang and Sunsari Industrial corridor.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3445-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
A comparative study of water chemistry of Keshaliya, Shinghiya and Lohandra rivers of Province No 1, Morang District, Nepal was performed for one spring season in 2016. Altogether 18 physico-chemical parameters were selected to be determined for each river during spring season. The values of each parameter recorded for the above rivers were pH (6.59 to 8.08), temperature (22.4 to 30.30C), electrical conductivity (336 to 537 NTU), DO (4.17 to 10.65 mg/l), total dissolved solids (168 to 268.5 mg/l), total hardness (145 to 204 mg/l), calcium hardness (106 to 180 mg/l), total alkalinity (172 to 226 mg/l), Silica (180 to 393 mg/l), total nitrogen (4.2 to 14 mg/l) total phosphorous (0.07 to 0.45 mg/l), BOD (4.24 to 126.27 mg/l), COD (9.20 to 252 mg/l), nitrate (<0.05 to 0.18 mg/l), chloride (4 to 36 mg/l), magnesium (4.13 to 21.4 mg/l) and calcium (12.15 to 72.29 mg/l).
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