Groundwater Quality and Associated Risk in Bhatinda District (Punjab, India)

Abstract

Today’s most serious threat of world is the water pollution. This is because it impacts flora and fauna of our earth. It is impacting human health in various ways. Pollutants which mainly impact human health are inorganic and organic pollutant as most of them are non-biodegradable and accumulate in the living organism for long time. Due to prolong accumulation, these pollutants exert more hazardous effect compare to biodegradable substances. Major source of contamination of water can be summarized as the dumping of waste in water bodies, excessive use of agricultural chemicals like pesticides, insecticides etc. Today we are facing crucial challenge to consume this polluted water and continues consumption causes potential threat as many of these pollutants are carcinogenic in nature. Today’s lifestyle already facing many health issues and water pollution adding more issues as cancer is prolong chronic disease. Although the issue is worldwide yet we can’t ignore high exposer in developing countries as these countries are seeking for more and more industrialization with less or moderate medical facilities as exposure with carcinogens requires persisting strategy for control of cancer. Thus, we aim to review the wide spread carcinogenic pollutants along with their origin and health risks associated with them. We also provided experimental results of detection of metal ions in ground water of Bhatinda region by using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) technique.