The Impact on Water Pollution on Noyyal River Basisn: A Special Reference to Scheduled Caste Group in Trippur District, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The groundwater sources and surface water have not been conducive for human and animal use. It is very painful to note that the problem of drinking water is the major issues in the study area. The village panchayat of this area has taken measures to provide drinking water from different parts (unpolluted) through Panchayat overhead tanks and pipelines. For instance, borewell point at Thottipalayam, Balasamundram, Papampalayam and Sokkanathapalayam are able to provide drinking water. These points are 5 to 6 km away from the affected village in the Noyyal basin. The secondary information collectedare the quality of the village,  sources of drinking water , pipe -distance of the borewell/ common tap, water quality parameter value, alternate sources of drinking water.The details of agricultural land fallow land , forest  land ,land cultivated land  cultivated number of villages affected due to water pollution, cropping pattern of the villages before pollution and after pollution average productions(per acre) irrigated land and unirrigated land farmers details, average income per acre ,source of irrigation no. of wells in the village ,total agricultural land of the village, land uncultivable due to pollution and water resource.