Environmental Assessment and Analysis of Chemical Properties of Drinking Water Using Geo-Spatial Technologies: Examples from Lahore Metropolitan - Advances in Remote Sensing

ARS > Vol.7 No.3, September 2018

Environmental Assessment and Analysis of Chemical Properties of Drinking Water Using Geo-Spatial Technologies: Examples from Lahore Metropolitan ()

HTML XML

Download as PDF (Size: 10127KB) PP. 259-275

DOI: 10.4236/ars.2018.73018 924 Downloads 2,302 Views

Author(s)

Ali Imam Mirza^1*, Ali Iqtadar Mirza¹, Tabasam Jamal², Syed Shehzad Hassan², Muhammad A. Butt², Atif Ali², Hafsa Batool², Rashid Mahmood², Attia Naz², Azam Sohail², Imran Saddique Kaukab², Sana Alvi², Javed Ahmad², Safeer Ali², Muneeb Aamir², Azeem Akhtar², Arshad Javed²

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Geography, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan.
²Remote Sensing Group, Department of Space Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT

The contamination of drinking water in Pakistan is a serious threat to its citizens. Urbanization leads to an increased demand of drinking water supply that leads to excessive drawdown that further causes lowering of water table. The current WASA (Water and Sanitation Authority) supply network does not fulfill the demand of a growing metropolitan city of Lahore. The drawdown of Lahore is absolutely reliant on Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) water supply network that causes numerous problems due to inappropriate management of groundwater capital and increased urbanization. This research investigates groundwater qualities: Alkalinity, Arsenic, Calcium, chloride, Total Hardness, Magnesium, Nitrate, pH and Total Dissolved solids using geographic information system (GIS). Residents of high concentrated towns, like Samnabad Town, Allama Iqbal Town, Gulberg, Data Ganj Bakhsh Town, Ravi Town and Wahga town witness cut-down of water supply mainly due to over burden on tube wells. Chemical properties of drinking water show that most of the parameters were within the allowable limits of WHO whereas the pH, and arsenic values are higher than the average. Arsenic is a carcinogenic element which causes cancer and is higher in the drinking water. Finally, this study identifies highly contaminated groundwater zones and makes it convenient to find actual pollutants. Therefore, plans are needed to protect the aquifer.

KEYWORDS

Water Contamination, Urbanization, Geographic Information System (GIS), Chemical Properties, Carcinogenic Elements, WHO, WebGIS, RS, WASA, DNA, pH, TDS

Share and Cite:

Mirza, A. , Mirza, A. , Jamal, T. , Hassan, S. , Butt, M. , Ali, A. , Batool, H. , Mahmood, R. , Naz, A. , Sohail, A. , Kaukab, I. , Alvi, S. , Ahmad, J. , Ali, S. , Aamir, M. , Akhtar, A. and Javed, A. (2018) Environmental Assessment and Analysis of Chemical Properties of Drinking Water Using Geo-Spatial Technologies: Examples from Lahore Metropolitan. Advances in Remote Sensing, 7, 259-275. doi: 10.4236/ars.2018.73018.

Journals Menu

Follow SCIRP

	+1 323-425-8868
	customer@scirp.org
	+86 18163351462(WhatsApp)
	1655362766

	Paper Publishing WeChat

Journals Menu

Home

About SCIRP

Service

Policies