Open AccessDetermination of physico-chemical parameters of coal mines water samples and their correlation establishment with WQI using python programming
Author(s) -
Satyajeet Parida,
Abhishek Kumar Tripathi,
Debi Prasad Tripathy,
Purabi Bora
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2070/1/012214
Subject(s) - pollution , acid mine drainage , coal mining , environmental science , sewage , water quality , drainage , contamination , correlation coefficient , water pollution , coal , environmental chemistry , environmental engineering , mining engineering , hydrology (agriculture) , geology , waste management , chemistry , mathematics , engineering , statistics , geotechnical engineering , ecology , biology
The quality assessment of water is the need of the hour as water pollution has reached to an alarming level. The pollution of natural water bodies due to mine drainage system and mining activities is a major environmental concern worldwide. There are many potential reasons of water pollution such as agricultural, sewage, oil, radioactive materials, dumping & mining activities etc. Mining activities are responsible for the contamination of watercourses with metal and increment of sediment levels in it, however acid mine drainage can be viewed as the most lethal means of polluting watercourse. In this study an analysis was done on the water samples collected from different coal mines of Jharkhand and Telangana State. The WQI for each sample were calculated and correlated with their physico-chemical parameters. The lowest grades of the water samples are mainly due to the presence of the strongest correlated parameters. It was observed that the iron content in the samples has the strongest correlation with a Pearson coefficient of 0.9977 and highest significance with a P value lower than 0.001.