Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

Spring water is inexpensive and high quality, but once the groundwater emerges out as spring, it loses its natural protection provided by the overlying rock layers and therefore becomes more vulnerable to contamination threats from surface and atmospheric conditions. The increasing human population has led to urbanization and other development activity which has resulted in degradation of quality of groundwater. It is believed by huge number of people that spring water contains the perfect blend of minerals within a matrix of clean water. The myth that spring water is healthy is not entirely true as it picks up natural minerals as well as any naturally occurring metals some of which can cause serious harm. It is therefore necessary to assess and check the quality of spring water at regular interval of time. This has been explained clearly by the help of considerable number of references in this paper. The quality of water is described according to its physical and chemical characteristics. The present paper describes the importance of different physico-chemical parameters of water quality. To check the suitability of water fit for drinking purposes, Water Quality Index (WQI) method is also described.