Study on the Quality of Groundwater and its Impact on Human Health: A Case Study from Murshidabad District, West Bengal

Mukhopadhyay, Bhabani Prasad; Barua, Swarnali; Bera, Amit; Mitra, Atanu

doi:10.1007/s12594-020-1608-8

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“…A proper approach towards maintaining the overall balance between groundwater recharge and discharge and a continuous monitoring of the water samples for its proper management is mandatory in the study area to escape from the effect of long-term build-up of salinity. Works related to groundwater quality and its management in Murshidabad district have been previously performed by some researchers (Mukherjee et al 2007;Farooq et al 2010;Chowdhury and Paul 2019;Chatterjee et al 2020;Mukhopadhyay et al 2020). Since not much of extensive research has been carried out till date in and around Sagardighi to assess the water quality for irrigational practice, the primary objective of undertaking this work was to decide the suitability of the available groundwater for agricultural and irrigation practices in Sagardighi block of Murshidabad district, West Bengal.…”

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Suitability assessment of groundwater quality for irrigational use in Sagardighi block, Murshidabad district, West Bengal

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Groundwater alone comprises nearly about 80% of the available water for irrigation purpose in Murshidabad and this usage of groundwater for irrigation is yet to increase further in the upcoming years. The present study was carried out to access the groundwater’s suitability for different agricultural purposes in and around Sagardighi block of Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India. Groundwater samples from thirty three different locations around Sagardighi were collected and then tested in the laboratory for various physical as well as chemical parameters such as electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), pH, some major cations (Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+, Fe2+) and some anions (CO32−, HCO3−, Cl−). To further delineate the suitable groundwater zones for irrigation practices, the irrigation water quality parameters such as sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), sodium percentage (Na%), magnesium adsorption ratio (MAR), permeability index (PI), residual sodium carbonate (RSC), Kelly’s ratio (KR) were also calculated. Results show that most of the water samples had low to medium salinity, while only a very few of the samples show high salinity. Piper trilinear plot reveals that the water is primarily of Ca–Mg–HCO3− facies type. The SAR value of majority of the water samples in the study area are less than 10, which is within safe limits. RSC values indicate that the carbonate content is extremely low in the groundwater of the study area. Overall, the results indicate that majority of the samples are fit to be used for irrigational purpose. The findings of this study would help decision-makers in developing irrigation suitability planning and groundwater resource management in the future.

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“…However, using the current RS data by employing the MCDM method at the block or district level, especially on Murshidabad district, considering the significant neighborhood criteria to inspect GWS dynamics covering pre-and post-monsoon seasons over a long episode of 20 years (2000-2020), was our unsullied and remarkable endeavor. It was noted that most of the previous water-related research had been completed on arsenic concentration in different blocks of the district [77][78][79], as well as quantification of groundwater resources of the Kandi subdivision of the district [76], spatio-temporal analysis of groundwater resources using GIS [76,80], the changing cropping pattern and irrigation intensity [78], the effect of population growth on the environment, including drinking water [81,82], cropping intensity, and productivity, agricultural development influenced by integrated water [83], quality of groundwater and impact on human helath [84], assessment of wetland ecosystem health of the district [85], and the delineation of the aquifer of the Raghunathganj-I block of Murshidabad district [86,87]. It was revealed from those works that the amount of groundwater has been declining, the quality of drinking water has lowered, and some areas were arsenic-affected.…”

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Assessing Groundwater Dynamics and Potentiality in the Lower Ganga Plain, India

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The present study intended to assess groundwater storage dynamics (GWS) and identify potential zones using the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method and geospatial technology in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India. The study district is located in the Ganga–Padma–Bhagirathi rivers’ floodplain and covers approximately a 5324 km2 area, comprising 26 blocks in five sub-divisions. The study portrayed a quantitative investigation of the pre-monsoon and post-monsoon season’s variability of GWS from 2000 to 2020, taking Landsat TM/Landsat 8 OLI/SRTM satellite data. The geo-spatio-temporal analysis of groundwater storage variability for 20 years was carried out by such remotely sensed data with the geospatial method to portray the dynamics and uncover the potential zones of GWS using various cartographic and statistical techniques. We determined nine parameters for the study, and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method was employed for the computation. The present estimation and assessment include the MCDM method, covering assorted parameters and the variations and aspects of GWS in the pre- and post-monsoon seasons from 2000 to 2020. The outcome illustrates that a decline in water storage has taken place in most of the blocks of Murshidabad district on average during the study period, which indicates a water stress provison in the near future. However, the micro (block)-level scenario of the spatiotemporal dynamics of GWS and the potential zonation in the Murshidabad District were investigated to form a location-specific micro-level arrangement for the sustainable management of water.

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Significance of the prime factors regulating arsenic toxicity and associated health risk: a hypothesis-based investigation in a critically exposed population of West Bengal, India

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Chowdhury

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Study on the Quality of Groundwater and its Impact on Human Health: A Case Study from Murshidabad District, West Bengal

Cited by 11 publications

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Suitability assessment of groundwater quality for irrigational use in Sagardighi block, Murshidabad district, West Bengal

Suitability assessment of groundwater quality for irrigational use in Sagardighi block, Murshidabad district, West Bengal

Assessing Groundwater Dynamics and Potentiality in the Lower Ganga Plain, India

Significance of the prime factors regulating arsenic toxicity and associated health risk: a hypothesis-based investigation in a critically exposed population of West Bengal, India

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