ANALYSIS OF SHALLOW WELL WATER QUALITY AND

DEVELOPING WATER QUALITY INDEX

Supervisor: Dr. K.G.N Nanayakkara

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

• AIM AND OBJECTIVES

• SCOPE
• LITERATURE REVIEW
• REFERENCES
AIM AND OBJECTIVES

• AIM
 Developing a water quality index to assesses the ground water
quality
• OBJECTIVES
 To collect the shallow well water quality data from the different
GNDs in UVA Province
 Analyze and Develop a water quality index for the CKDu
affected area
• SCOPE

 Analyzing and Developing a water quality index for the CKDu affected area of
Monaragala District

 6 DSDs are selected among 11 DSDs to develop a water quality index where the
CKDu Patients are reported

12 water quality parameters are used to develop water quality index

(Colour, Turbididty, pH, Electrical Conductivity, Chloride, Flouride, Alkalinity,

Total Dissolved Solids, Total Hardness , Total Iron, Total Coliform, E.Coli )
• SCOPE

LIMITATION OF RESEARCH

High and Moderate CKDu affected areas will be studied in this research

Effect of seasonal variation on groundwater quality is not covered in this study

DETERMINATION OF STUDY
AREA

Monaragala is the second largest

district of Sri Lanka which covers
5659.3 km2

There are 11 DSDs including 319

GNDs
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Suspected patients for kidney

diseases from 2106 to 2018
march

Source of data: RDHS’s Office, Monaragala)

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(Source of data: RDHS’s

Office, Monaragala)
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No. of Diagnosed
MOH Area
Patients
Monaragala 102
Wellawaya 271
Buttala 229
Badalkumbura 90
Sevanagala 150 Source of data: RDHS’s Office, Monaragala
Kataragama 18
Madagama 64
Siyabalanduwa 186
Madulla 43
Thanamalwila 274
Bibila 105
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Patients according to
Thanamalwila
GNDs

Source of data: RDHS’s Office, Monaragala)

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Patients according to Buttala GNDs

Source of data: RDHS’s Office, Monaragala)

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Patients according to Wellawaya

GNDs

Source of data: RDHS’s Office, Monaragala)

 DETERMINATION OF STUDY AREA
• According to above data , Most highly CKDu affected DSDs of Monaragala district

Thanamalwila
Wellawaya
Buttala

Moderate CKDu affected DSDs

Bibila
Sevanagala
Siyabalanduwa

Hence , hope to analyze the shallow well water quality and develop a water
quality index for these DSDs
LITERATURE REVIEWS

• 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
In this literature
• computed to calculate Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water
Quality Index (CCME WQI) in the Kelani river basin to determine suitability of water
for drinking, irrigation and livestock purposes
• Thirty ground water samples had selected for the WQI assessment and CCME WQI
had applied for eighteen water quality parameters.
• pH, FC, TC, Electrical conductivity , Hardness , TDS,BOD,TP, nitrate,nitride,
COD,Cd,Pb,Cu,Cr,Al, Zn, DO had analysed
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• Drinking water category based on eighteen water quality parameters

namely pH value, Total Dissolved Solids, Total phosphate, Nitrite,
Nitrate, Hardness, Conductivity, BOD, COD, DO, Al, Cd, Zn, Cu, Pb,
Cr, total coliform and feacal coliform counts

• Cd, Al, Zn, Pb, Cr ,Cu, TDS, total coliform and feacal coliform were
considered for irrigation water quality

• Nitrite, TDS, nitrates, Al, Zn, Pb, Cd and Cu were considered for
livestock water quality
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Study
area
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• CCME Water Quality Index
F1 (Scope) represents the percentage of parameters that not within the
guideline

F2 (Frequency) signifies the percentage of individual tests within each

parameter that exceeded the guideline
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F3 (Amplitude) represents the extent (excursion) to which the failed test

exceeds the guideline. When the test value must not exceed the
objective

For the cases in which the test value must not fall below the objective
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Then, the normalized sum of excursions (nse) is calculated as follows

F3 is hten calculated using a formula that scales the nse to range

between 1 and 1 0 0
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The CCME Water Quality Index (CCME WQI)

According to the CCME WQI water quality was ranked in the following
5 categories
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WQI CATERGORY
RANGE
0-44 Poor Water quality does not meet any criteria for use as a source of
drinking water, conditions usually depart from natural or desirable
levels
45-64 Medium Water quality often violates criteria for use as a source of
drinking water by a considerable margin, conditions often depart
from natural levels
65-79 Fair Water quality sometimes violates criteria, possibly by a wide
margin, for use as a source of drinking water conditions
sometimes depart from desirable levels
80-94 Good Water quality rarely disturbs criteria for use as a source of
drinking water, conditions rarely depart from natural levels
95-100 Excellent: Water quality fulfill all criteria for use as a source of
drinking water, conditions very close to pristine levels
LITERATURE REVIEWS

• P. A. S. A. Rathnasri ;Pathmalal M. Manage (2015) Evaluation of

Groundwater Quality in Five Grama Divisions of Maharagama Urban
Area Using Groundwater Quality Index (WQI) (2015), International
Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (IJMS) .Volume 2, Issue II
In this literature
• aims to monitor and evaluate the quality of groundwater in five
selected Grama Niladhari (GN) divisions (Jambugasmulla,
Gangodawila south B, Wijerama, Navinna and Wattegedara) in
Maharagama urban area
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Fifty five wells were selected for

sampling representing the five
GN divisions.
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• Twelve physico- chemical parameters were used to calculate the WQI

including total alkalinity, hardness, conductivity, pH, chloride, nitrate,
total phosphate and five heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Zn, Fe and Pb)
• In this literature, Water quality index was calculated using following
steps
1 st step
weight value was assigned for each of the twelve parameters depending
on their relative importance. The maximum weight (5) has been
assigned to parameters with major importance.
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2nd step
Then, the relative weight was calculated using the following equation
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• 3rd step
Assigning the quality rating scale for each parameter

qi - quality rating
Ci - concentration of each chemical parameter
Si - Sri Lankan drinking water standard for each chemical parameter
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• 4th step
Calculation of SI value

SIi - sub index of I th parameter

Wi - relative weight of ith parameter.
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• 5th step
Calculation of WQI

n - number of chemical parameters measured in each well water sample

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• RESULTS
LITERATURE REVIEWS
• Titus Cooray ; Yuansong Wei ; Hui Zhong ;Libing Zheng ; Sujithra K. Weragoda;
Rohan Weerasooriya (2019) Assessment of Groundwater Quality in CKDu Affected
Areas of Sri Lanka: Implications for Drinking Water Treatment.International journal
of Environmental Research and Public Health
In this literature
• investigate groundwater quality in the CKDu affected area
composite water quality index (WQI) based on WHO guidelines and Sri Lankan
Water Quality (SLS614:2013) Standards were calculated
• Two sets of samples (wet and dry condition) were collected from different CKDu
prevailing Divisional Secretariat Divisions of Anuradhapura district such as high ,
moderate and mild Divisional Secretariat and for the comparison some samples were
taken from monaragala and kandy
• Reason - obtain a uniform distribution of sampling locations through the study area
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• Analytical Procedures
Na, K, Al, Ca, Mg, Fe,pH, EC, alkalinity, turbidity,DOC were taken
Water Quality Index

Wi - relative weight of ith parameter

qi - quality rating
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REFERENCES

• 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

• P. A. S. A. Rathnasri ;Pathmalal M. Manage (2015) Evaluation of Groundwater

Quality in Five Grama Divisions of Maharagama Urban Area Using Groundwater
Quality Index (WQI) (2015), International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
(IJMS) .Volume 2, Issue II

• Titus Cooray ; Yuansong Wei ; Hui Zhong ;Libing Zheng ; Sujithra K. Weragoda;
Rohan Weerasooriya (2019) Assessment of Groundwater Quality in CKDu Affected
Areas of Sri Lanka: Implications for Drinking Water Treatment.International journal
of Environmental Research and Public Health
REFERENCES

• Li pei-yue;Qian Hui ; Wu Jian – Hua (2010) Groundwater Quality Assessment Based

on Improved Water Quality Index in Pengyang County, Ningxia, Northwest China. E-
Journal of Chemistry , 7(S1), S209-S216

• I.G.C.I. Kumara, S.S.K. Rathnayaka, M.M.C.M. Mayadunne and R.R.G.R. Rajapakse.

Assessment of Groundwater Quality in Jaffna Peninsula. Journal of Geological
Society of Sri Lanka Vol. 15 (2013), 137-146.

• Titus Cooray, Yuansong Wei, Hui Zhong, Libing Zheng, Sujithra K. Weragoda and
Rohan Weerasooriya. Assessment of Groundwater Quality in CKDu Affected Areas
of Sri Lanka: Implications for Drinking Water Treatment. Int. J. Environ. Res.
Public Health 2019, 16, 1698
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