Vol. 12, Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Anuradha Budholiya, Vipin Kumar, RS Tayde, NK Nayak, D Gangil, BP Shukla, SPS Parihar and P Prajapati

Abstract:
In the present investigation, a total of 120 dairy animal drinking water samples were collected from all four administrative blocks of the Indore district (M.P.). The Study was conducted in the department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry Mhow, Indore (M.P.) from June 2022 to November 2022. On physicochemical analysis of water, the mean values for temperature, pH, colour, TDS, turbidity, residual chlorine, hardness, chloride, nitrate, fluoride, and iron were found to be between 26.09±0.16 ºC to 26.83±0.09 ºC, 7.20±0.06 to 7.36±0.09, 9.66±1.15 to 12.00±1.49 Hazen unit, 376.93±17.98 to 459.63±27.97 ppm, 13.83±0.95 NTU to 16.33±1.19 NTU, 0.016±0.01 to 0.012±0.01 mg/l, 225.33±08.23 to 305±30.89 mg/l, 104.33±12.71 to 249.66±31.88 mg/l, 50.33±03.48 to 90.83±11.21 mg/l, 0.21±0.04 to 0.39±0.03 mg/l and 0.03±0.01 to 0.14±0.03 mg/l, respectively. The results showed that mean values of water samples for parameters such as temperature, pH, colour, TDS, residual chlorine, nitrate, fluoride and iron were found within the allowable limits whereas turbidity, total hardness and chloride were found above the allowable limits set by United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) and Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) for animal water. Comparative appraisal among all blocks revealed that a high percentage of water samples were found to be odourless in Sanwer and Mhow block and 66.67% of water samples from Mhow and Sanwer block were found to be favourable in taste whereas 26.67% of water samples from the Indore block were found very unfavorable in taste. On bacteriological analysis, the mean values of the coliform count were found to be between 111.23±60.32 to 340.50±94.79 coliforms/100ml, indicated a significant difference between all four blocks (p<0.05) of the studied area.