Groundwater Use for Washing Vehicles: A Study from Shrigonda Town, India | Chapter 5 | Current Research on Geography, Earth Science and Environment Vol. 2

The rapid growth of urbanisation leads to an increased demand for new vehicles. With the increasing number of new vehicles, the number of vehicle washing centres has also increased accordingly. Most of these washing centres use groundwater as their source of water. As a result, the groundwater level is decreasing, leading to a groundwater shortage. The washing centres are generating vast amounts of wastewater and discharging harmful pollutants into surface water, which degrades both surface water quality and groundwater quality. Therefore, the study estimates the volume of water and physicochemical properties of wastewater generated from washing vehicles at 13 vehicle washing centres during both the dry and wet seasons. The data were analysed using the student t-test and one-way ANOVA to assess seasonal variation in water use for washing vehicles, as determined by SPSS software. During the study, 762 and 982 vehicles were observed in the dry and wet seasons, respectively. The results revealed that in the dry season, the mean water used for washing motorbikes was 95.83 L, cars (219.62 L), light motor vehicles (235.64 L), and heavy transport vehicles (300.79 L).

 

On the other hand, during the wet season, the mean water volume used to wash motorbikes was (128.28), cars (258.79, light motor vehicles (290.89), and heavy transport vehicles (415.40). During the dry season, 102301 litres per day, and in the wet season, 168114 litres per day of groundwater were used at the vehicle washing centres in Shrigonda town and discharged wastewater into the sewer system. The physicochemical property results indicate a higher concentration of harmful contaminants, including total dissolved solids (TDS), total suspended solids (TSS), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), oil and grease, and turbidity.

 

Author(s) Details

Bapu D. Deokar
Department of Geography, Maharaja Jivajirao Shinde Mahavidyalaya, Shrigonda Ahilyanagar, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, MS, India.

 

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Bioremediation Dairy Wastewater through Vermifiltration | Chapter 2 | Research Highlights in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 9

 The harsh exhaustion of water maybe offset through the bioremediation of wastewater. In this study an attempt has existed fashioned to remediate the buttery wastewater through the endeavor of regionally convenient earthworms. All the physicochemical limits are considerably transformed on transition of wastewater through gut of earthworm. By 30 days the pH, TDS, TSS, BOD, COD, Fluoride, Chloride, Phosphate and Nitrate shortened by 7.2, 46, 88.3, 62.9, 51.4, 59, 66.2 and 60.9 %, individually when gived through vermibed.

Author(s) Details:

Aliva Patnaik,
School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Odisha, PIN-768019, India.

Anupama Bhagat,
School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Odisha, PIN-768019, India.S

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Analysis of Sea Water Intrusion for a Part of Limestone Tract of Gujarat Coast, India | Chapter 12 | Research Developments in Science and Technology Vol. 1

 The goal of this research is to bring together information from three different mining sites on the Saurashtra coast. The study's goal was to look at current data and understand the hallmark of seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifer at locations where limestone (marly limestone) is commonly found and extracted economically. The water quality data collected by various national agencies and concerned state organisations, including the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR; formerly Central Mining Research Institute or CMRI), the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), and the Gujarat Water Resources Development Corporation Limited (GWRDC), are used in the R&D analysis presented in this paper.

Because of the high salinity/alkalinity, the coastal aquifer of the Saurashtra Coast has good permeability and transmissivity, as well as a greater specific conductance of ground. The hydrogeological parameters allow for the natural transit of solutes, resulting in the existence of seawater intrusion (SWI). Groundwater Investigations were conducted for a decade (2006-2007 to 2016-2017) at various studied sites of this limestone tract, where limestone mining is still going on for industrial purposes, revealing the presence of SWI and proving to be extremely useful in analysing the trend of SWI all along the Saurashtra coast.

Author(S) Details

Abhay K. Soni
Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Nagpur, India.

Paras R. Pujari
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India.

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