ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN AND AROUND TAMBARAM TALUK, KANCHEEPURAM DISTRICT

The most important natural resource essential for human being for secured and healthy living source is the groundwater. But nowadays the groundwater is contaminated by different reasons like urbanization and industrialization. The necessity of this study is to analyse the quality of water in the study area in and around Tambaram taluk, Kancheepuram district, because Tambaram taluk is a densely populated as well as a developing area so the possibilities of getting polluted are maximum.The groundwater samples were collected from twenty different locations from bore well and open well at different depth. In this study groundwater parameters like pH, Total Hardness, TDS, Chlorides etc., are considered to determine the water quality in the study area to create about the awareness of drinking water quality.