Pritam Kumar Barik, Nandita Mahanta and Basudev Bacha
Abstract
Access to good groundwater is a major challenge in many developing countries. One hundred groundwater samples were collected from Balipal block in Balasore district in North-Eastern Odisha to measure the groundwater quality. pH and HCO3- results were nearly symmetrical, but fluoride results were slightly skewed and Hydro geochemical analysis in Piper diagram shown that Na+-K+-HCO3- type water chemical phase constitutes 48% (n=48) and Ca2+-Mg2+-HCO3- type constitutes 36% (n=36). Gibbs plots determined the hydro geochemistry of water. The Gibbs plot shows that most of the samples are ârock-dominated,â illustrated that the local rocks in the area control the chemical composition.