Groundwater is a major source of drinking water in rural India. But unfortunately the quality of groundwater is deteriorating day by day due to human activities. The present study was aimed to assess the quality of all groundwater samples of Gonsa village of Ujjain.The physico-chemical parameters were analyzed by following the standard methods of APHA and results were compared with BIS, WHO, ICMR standards for drinking water. Nitrate, Sulfate, Total alkalinity and total hardness were found to be within the limits of WHO and BIS (except open well sample where TA and TH were higher than the permissible limit). pH (7.5 to 10.1), Turbidity (6.358 to 42.277 NTU), Dissolved solids (1274 to 2624 mg/l), were found to be higher than the permissible limits.
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