Ground Water Quality in and Around Gajuwaka Area, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Now-a-days natural resources decreasing drastically due to improper usage and human life styles. Urbanization and over exploration of ground water resources may causes water scarcity and increasing of mineral content may disturb the purity of ground water. Our present study, focused on ground water quality in and around Gajuwaka area, Visakhapatnam, AP, India. Important parameters like pH, Electrical Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids, Chlorides, Sulphates, Total Hardness, Total Alkalinity, Nitrate and Dissolved Oxygen. Most of the parameters were exceeded the ground water quality of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and World Health Organization (WHO) during the study. Poor water quality was found and extent of pollution occurred may be due to over exploitation of ground water, urbanization and anthropogenic activities.