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Volume 3, Issue 2 (Suppl) Ind Chem
ISSN: 2469-9764, ICO an open access journa Industrial Chemistry 2017
May 22-23, 2017
May 22-23, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
2nd World Conference on
Industrial Chemistry and Water Treatment
Quality assessment of groundwater from Avenorfeme, Akatsi district, Ghana
B V Samlafo1, L H Bobobee1, E Quarshie2, L A Sarsah3 and E A Kaka2
1University of Education, Ghana
2National Nuclear Research Institute, Ghana
3Radiological and Medical Sciences Research Institute, Ghana
Aholistic assessment of the quality of groundwater from the shallow unconfined aquifers of the Avenorfeme and surrounding
villages in the Akatsi South District in the Volta Region of Ghana has been conducted. A groundwater classification
scheme has been developed for groundwater in the area using a robust water quality index (WQI) modified for the case of
the study area. For calculating the WQI, pH, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, chloride, nitrate, sulfate,
total dissolved solids, and fluorides have been considered. On the basis of the WQI so computed, groundwater fell within
the excellent, good, poor and unsuitable for drinking categories. This study finds that the salinity of groundwater in the area
is largely attributed to mineral weathering leading to evolution of predominantly intermediate to high salinity NaCl water
types. On account of salinity hazard, most of the waters are not suitable for irrigation in the area. Based on total hardness, the
groundwater in the area is permanently hard.
B V Samlafo et al., Ind Chem 2017, 3:2 (Suppl)