Water Quality Monitoring of Residential Area Affected by Solid Waste Landfill Site in Jaipur city

Abstract

Water is a chemical, transparent and colourless substance that is formed from one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atom. It is the main constituent of earth ecosystem as it is essential for all animals and plants. The water is distributed on earth in the form of rivers, lakes, oceans, ponds, groundwater and spring. Almost 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, from which 96.5% of the planet crust water is found in seas and oceans, 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and large water bodies, left 0.001% in the air as vapour. As there is only 1.7% of safe drinking water available in total and due to the variations in climatic change the surface water is not available throughout the year,so usage of groundwater has become common. This work was done in Dr. B. Lal Institute of Biotechnology, Jaipur, Rajasthan. The samples were collected from Langadiyawas, Jaipur, Rajasthan from five wells in the locality. The physico-chemical analysis along with biological analysis were done according to APHA () and Berge’s manual for correlation study of quality of water for three months. Out of 5 wells it was found that the 3rd well water is totally affected with solid waste landfill, but the other are also affected and microorganisms such as Staphylococcus aureus, Micrococcus sp., Bacillus sp., Streptococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were identified in thes amples in two seasons (pre and post monsoon). Hereby, we can deduce that the area is prone to the groundwater contamination due to the dumping site. Thus the need of the hours is to save water from being polluted by moving away the municipal solid waste dumping site from the area and develop proper engineered landfill site. Effective monitoring of groundwater quality is also important to safe guard the health of the public residing in the surrounding of the dumping site.