Scribd
Upload
38 views

Water Quantity Index

The document discusses water quality sampling that was conducted over six months in 2014. Samples were collected weekly from streams and boreholes in the area using GPS to maintain consistency. The samples were stored and transported to a lab for physical, chemical, and bacteriological analysis. Parameters measured in the field included pH, DO, TSS and TDS while those analyzed in the lab included hardness, chloride, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, conductivity, TDS, sulfate, nitrate, bicarbonate, iron, copper, zinc, chromium, and total coliform. The document also presents a water quality index classification system based on pollution index values that range from no pollution to seriously polluted.

Uploaded by

pkjhan1353
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
38 views

Water Quantity Index

The document discusses water quality sampling that was conducted over six months in 2014. Samples were collected weekly from streams and boreholes in the area using GPS to maintain consistency. The samples were stored and transported to a lab for physical, chemical, and bacteriological analysis. Parameters measured in the field included pH, DO, TSS and TDS while those analyzed in the lab included hardness, chloride, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, conductivity, TDS, sulfate, nitrate, bicarbonate, iron, copper, zinc, chromium, and total coliform. The document also presents a water quality index classification system based on pollution index values that range from no pollution to seriously polluted.

Uploaded by

pkjhan1353
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

months dry season and three months rainy season.

The months were January, February


and March and July, August and September, 2014. The samples were collected once a
week in both streams and boreholes, Geographic Positioning System (GPS) was used for
constancy of the sample collection and the plastic bottles were properly labeled with dates
according to sources of water, the collected samples were stored in a cold box at 4 0C and
taken to the laboratory for physico-chemical and bacteriological parameters analyses.
Insites measurements of streams parameters was measured in the field based on the
parameters needed. Like pH, DO, TSS and TDS. and the parameters analyzed in the
laboratory were total hardness (TH), chloride, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium,
conductivity, total dissolve solid, sulphate, nitrate, bicarbonate, iron, copper, zinc,
chromium, total coliform, calcium and magnesium.
Water quality index
Table 1
Water quality Pollution index Status
classification based on
pollution index Class
Class 1
BODS, Ca, conductivity, P1<1 No pollution
CL, DO, Fe, HCO3, K, Na,
NO3, pH, PO4, SO4, TDS,
total hardness
Class 2
Mn, Temperature, turbidity P1: 1-2 Slightly polluted
Class 3 P1: 2-3 Moderately polluted
Class 4 P1: 3-5 Strongly polluted
Class 5 P1: > 5 Seriously polluted
Faecal coliform

You might also like