Water Quality Towards Indexing the Drinking Standard of Bottled Water

Authors

  • Dhiman Santra  Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India
  • Mitali Sarkar  Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST2310169

Keywords:

Water Quality, Drinking Water Standard, Water Quality Index, Water Quality Categories, Entrepreneurship Development

Abstract

Access to safe drinking water is one of the major concerns around the globe. Due to enormous shortage and unavailability of quality water dependence on bottled water has been growing continuously. The study aims at to evaluate the water quality for suitability from different available sources of drinking water such as branded bottled water (BBW), local bottled water (LBW) and water from public accessible places (PAP). The water quality index (WQI) is evaluated and taken as the guiding parameter. Different water quality parameters (physical, chemical and biological). The result showed that the water quality varies for different water sources and fell into excellent, good, fair and poor categories as per WHO guidelines. The result showed that 98% of BBW, 80% of LBW and only 70% of PAP are excellent for drinking purposes. The study recommends enormous scope of entrepreneurship development of bottled drinking water, maintaining the quality criteria of drinking standard.

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2023-02-28

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Dhiman Santra, Mitali Sarkar "Water Quality Towards Indexing the Drinking Standard of Bottled Water" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 10, Issue 2, pp.18-24, March-April-2023. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST2310169