European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience

Authors
R Sheela, T Ramesh

Abstract
Water is referred to as universal solvent, since among all the importance needs of human beings and animals and universally known as air, water food, shelter etc, water plays a very important role and it is the highest role because it is essential to sustain life since the protoplasm of many living cells contain 30% of water and any substantial reduction will cause disaster. The main objective of the study is to determine the ground water quality in and around Kollidam and Chidambaram area. The study reveals that the characteristics of ground water in and around Kollidam area and Chidambaram are not having wide variation with Indian standards with except few locations in Chidambaram and Kollidam.