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- Title
Assessment of ground and surface water quality along the river Varuna, Varanasi, India.
- Authors
Singh, Pardeep; Chaturvedi, R.; Mishra, Ankit; Kumari, Lata; Singh, Rishikesh; Pal, D.; Giri, Deen; Singh, Nand; Tiwary, Dhanesh; Mishra, Pradeep
- Abstract
Multivariate statistical techniques were employed for monitoring of ground-surface water interactions in rivers. The river Varuna is situated in the Indo-Gangetic plain and is a small tributary of river Ganga. The study area was monitored at seven sampling sites for 3 years (2010-12), and eight physio-chemical parameters were taken into account for this study. The data obtained were analysed by multivariate statistical techniques so as to reveal the underlying implicit information regarding proposed interactions for the relevant area. The principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA), and the results of correlations were also studied for all parameters monitored at every site. Methods used in this study are essentially multivariate statistical in nature and facilitate the interpretation of data so as to extract meaningful information from the datasets. The PCA technique was able to compress the data from eight to three parameters and captured about 78.5 % of the total variance by performing varimax rotation over the principal components. The varifactors, as yielded from PCA, were treated by CA which grouped them convincingly into three groups having similar characteristics and source of contamination. Moreover, the loading of variables on significant PCs showed correlations between various ground water and surface water (GW-SW) parameters. The correlation coefficients calculated for various physiochemical parameters for ground and surface water established the correlations between them. Thus, this study presents the utility of multivariate statistical techniques for evaluation of the proposed interactions and effective future monitoring of potential sites.
- Subjects
INDIA; GROUNDWATER quality; MULTIVARIATE analysis; RIVERS; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); VARIMAX rotation
- Publication
Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2015, Vol 187, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0167-6369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10661-015-4382-0