India is endowed with a rich and vast diversity of natural resources, water being one of them. Water is nature’s most wonderful,
abundant and useful compound. Of the many essential elements for the existence of human beings, animals and plants, water is rated
to be of the greatest importance.
Groundwater is an important source of water supply throughout the world. Due to inadequate supply of surface waters, most of the
people in India are depending mainly on groundwater resources for drinking and domestic, industrial, and irrigation uses. The
groundwater is believed to be comparatively much clean and free from pollution than surface water.
But prolonged discharge of industrial effluents, domestic sewage and solid waste dump causes the groundwater to become polluted
and created health problems.
