Assessment of potability of Drinking water during Rainy season in Tirupattur District, Tamil Nadu, India
A. R. Deborah1, M. Jebastin Sonia Jas2, D. John Milton3, K. Gayathri1 and P. Saranraj1
1Department of Microbiology, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur - 635601 (India) 2Department of Chemistry, IFET College of Engineering (Autonomous), Villupuram - 605108 (India) 3Department of Microbiology, St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Cuddalore - 607001 (India) *Corresponding Author E.mail: microsaranraj@gmail.com; Phone: +91-9994146964
ABSTRACT
All people need access to safe and clean drinking water, which is a huge global challenge. Drinking water is an essential resource for all living things. Surface water or ground water must typicallyundergoone or more treatment procedures to remove impurities before being converted into drinkable water. The elimination of turbidityis frequently a crucial step in the treatment process when surface water is utilized as the raw water. Cheap, simple, reliable, and effective process methods are required to provide clean water as a resource to as many people as feasible. Living things have a finite number of resources at their disposal in this planet. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the drinkabilityof water during the rainy season in five distinct locations in the Tirupattur district of Tamil Nadu, India. Drinking water samples that wereobtained from variousplaces in the Tirupattur district wereexamined for their physico-chemical properties. Except for the fluoride concentration, the water’s physico-chemical properties are within the TNPCB-provided permitted limit of Standard. The water samples were free of hazardous bacteria including enteric coliform, which is extremely risky to human health and a major factor in manywater-borne illnesses. However, the water gathered from these five sites reveals the presence of a small number of bacterial communities that are not toxic and may even be advantageous to living things.