SHALLOW WELL WATER QUALITY ANALYSING AND PROPOSING A

HOME REMEDIAL METHODS FOR THE COMMUNITY OF UVA

PROVINCE

Supervisor: Dr. K.G.N Nanayakkara

PG/E/WE/2020/04
Chaminda W.G
CONTENT

• INTRODUCTION
• AIM AND OBJECTIVES
• LITERATURE REVIEW
• TENTATIVE METHODOLOGY
• REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION

When we consider the world water distribution it shows how limited water source
where we have to deal with
INTRODUCTION

• When consider the Uva Province of Sri Lanka, People who live in this
province have to face many difficulties in obtaining drinking water

•There is a shortage of quality drinkable water within the periods of

severe drought continuing in every year

•People manage their water requirement by using existing pipe borne water
schemes, tube wells, protected wells, unprotected wells, rain water tank,
rivers and streams
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• The Problem is

Water quality is not up to the standard level in most of these

sources

Hence , People are suffering from water borne diseases in this

province
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Water borne diseases
 Fever
 Diarrhea
 Typhoid
 CKD
 Nearly 30% of the hospitalized due to water borne diseases

Typhoid Hepatitis Dysentary

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AS an example
• Mainly CKD patients were reported in Rahathangama, Kumaragama,
Kukurampola areas of Buttala DSD, Warunagama, Anapallama, Maha
Aragama, Pubuduwewa areas of Wellawaya DSD as well as most parts of
Thanamalwila DSD
• Also there are patients can be seen in all most all the GNDs. Out of the 1534
CKD patients reported from Monaragala District, 774 patients were reported
from these three DSDs. So the using of ground water sources not acceptable
in these areas.
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Map of Badulla and Monaragala

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Summery of CKD Patients as at March 2018

DS Division Total Population No. of CKD % of CKD

patients patients
Wellawaya 37,519 271 0.72
Thanamalwila 16,668 274 1.64
Buttala 33,160 229 0.69

Source of data: RDHS’s Office, Monaragala)

6 Nos of death were reported due to CKD up to March 2018.

INTRODUCTION
• According to the studies carried out by RDHS’s Office, Monaragala it
was seems that the CKD patients were reported mostly in the areas
where high Fluoride concentration in the drinking water

• Many school children are suffering with dental fluorosis disease

INTRODUCTION

• Pipe borne water supply can not be supplied the whole area

• Hence people have to use ground water for their purposes as an

optional

• So that it is expected to analyze the ground water data and propose a

remedial method for treating contaminated ground water
AIM AND OBJECTIVES

• AIM
 Finding a home remedial method for the contaminated shallow
well water to raise up to required strandard drinking water quality
• OBJECTIVES
 Collecting the data from the different GNDs in UVA Province
 Analyzing the data to find the most affected area
 Finding the suitable home remedial method to treat the water upto
standard level
LITERATURE REVIEWS
• W. M. Dimuthu Nilmini Wijeyaratne., Suvendran Subanky (2017 ) Assessment of
the Efficacy of Home Remedial Methods to Improve Drinking Water Quality in Two
Major Aquifer Systems in Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka. Hindawi, Scientifica,Volume
2017,
In this literature
compare water quality in the domestic wells and assess the efficacy
of household water treatments for treating contaminated water
Three methods are used to treat the contaminated water
• Commercial mineral filter
Moringa oleifera leaf powder filter
Boiling at 100∘C for 10 minutes
LITERATURE REVIEW

CONCLUSION
 Commercial mineral filter is suitable for reducing total
phosphorous, oil and grease, total hardness, and nitrate N
concentration in the water
 Moringa oleifera leaf powder filter provide a cheaper and
efficient option as for nitrate removal
 Boiling at 100∘C for 10 minutes could be used to remove significant
amount of total hardness in drinking water but that may cause
significant increase in nitrate concentration which might result in
severe health impacts
LITERATURE REVIEW

• Rani Devi ., Esayas Alemayehu ., Vijender Singh ., Ashok Kumar ., Embialle

Mengistie (2007) Removal of fluoride, arsenic and coliform bacteria by modified
homemade filter media from drinking water. Bioresource Technology.pp.2269-
2274
In this literature
investigate the removal of fluoride, arsenic and coliform bacteria from drinking
water using modified homemade filter media
Batch mode experimental study was conducted to test the efficiency of
modified homemade filter for reduction of impurities under the operating condition
of treatment time (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 h)
LITERATURE REVIEW

Home made filter media tank Modified home made filter media tank
LITERATURE REVIEW
RESULTS

Contribution of crushed brick in percent

removal of fluoride, arsenic and coliform
bacteria by treatment with modified homemade
filter media.
LITERATURE REVIEW

CONCLUSION

 It shows a good potential for the removal of fluoride, arsenic and

coliform bacteria from drinking water

 maximum reduction of fluoride, arsenic and coliform bacteria in

percentage was 85.60%, 93.07% and 100%
TENTATIVE METHODOLOGY

Collecting water quality data from different GNDs

Analyzing the data using software

Compare the analyzed results with Standard drinking water

parameters

Selecting a most affected area and taking shallow well water

samples from that area

Finding a suitable remedial method to treat the contaminated

shallow well water

Testing the water quality of samples and compare with

standard drinking water parameters
REFERENCES
• W. M. Dimuthu Nilmini Wijeyaratne., Suvendran Subanky (2017 ) Assessment of
the Efficacy of Home Remedial Methods to Improve Drinking Water Quality in
Two Major Aquifer Systems in Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka. Hindawi,
Scientifica,Volume 2017,
• Rani Devi ., Esayas Alemayehu ., Vijender Singh ., Ashok Kumar ., Embialle
Mengistie (2007) Removal of fluoride, arsenic and coliform bacteria by modified
homemade filter media from drinking water. Bioresource Technology.pp.2269-2274
• Aberamy Sayanthan., Ponipus T. J. Jashothan., Suntharalingam Saravanan.,
Ranganathan Kapilan (2016) Characterization of iron Bacterium Gallionella
ferruginea isolated from the drinking water of the collector wells in Northern Sri
Lanka.Tropiical Plant Research an international journal.pp.440-448
• MGYL Mahagamage. , SDM Chinthaka., PM Manage (2016) Assessment of water
quality index for groundwater in the kelani river basin, sri lanka. International
Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research. Volume:02, lssue:05
REFERENCES

• Peter Kjær Jensen1., Jeroen H. J. Ensink., Gayathri Jayasinghe., Wim van der
Hoek., Sandy Cairncross., and Anders Dalsgaard (2002) Domestic transmission
routes of pathogens: the problem of in-house contamination of drinking water
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