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Impact Of Textile Industrial Effluent On Ground Water Quality Essay

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ASSESSEMENT ON IMPACT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT ON GROUND WATER QUALITY IN NOYYAL RIVER REGION ,TIRUPUR Vinothini T1, Mr Rajagopalan V2 1Department of Environmental Engineering, Anna UniversityTiruchirapalli (BIT campus) 2Assistant professor, Department of civil Engineering, Anna University Tiruchirapalli (BIT campus) 1Corresponding author: Email: vinothangaraj93@gmail.com ABSTRACT Water is vital to the existence of living organisms, but this valued resource is increasingly being threatened as human population grown which increases the demand for high quality water for domestic purposes and economic activities (UNESCO, 2003). Tiruppur is fast growing ‘industrial city’ known for its hosiery industries in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu. It is an Indian textile town which constitutes many dyeing and bleaching units situated in the upstream of Noyyal River and serves as one of the major exporters of textiles. The industrial pollution has affected not only the surface water but also the soil and ground water. In recent decades, the ecosystem, particularly the water and land resources of the Noyyal river basin have been affected due to heavy discharge of industrial effluents. In the present investigation water samples (A, B, C, D and E) were collected from various sites near the Orathupalayam reservoir of Noyyal River to study the level of penetration of polluted water into the aquifer system. The physio-chemical properties of water samples were analyzed and studied.

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