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Water is an essential vital element
among the natural resources and is important for the endurance of
all living creatures including human, animals, microorganism, and
plants. Water quality is affected due to the human activity such as
urbanization, road construction, and industrial production. India
has 75.8 million people living without access to clean water. Indian
busiest railway stations are always in demand for drinking water;
hence, packaged drinking water concept has started to provide the
safe and clean drinking water to the travelers. Bureau of Indian
Standards has given quality assessment standard for drinking water.
However, parameter like total organic carbon (TOC) is not mentioned
in that standard. Various researchers have proved that TOC can help
to determine the degree of pollution and organic matters present in
the water. In the present study, packaged drinking water and tap
drinking water were collected from the railway station and analyzed
for total organic content using TOC analyzer. TOC was found in the
range of 0.71–98.57 ppm. This system would be implanted in the
drinking water and sewage water filtration plant to effectively
identify the organic carbon and there is a serious need to
incorporate this parameter in the water quality standard to keep
track on the organic matters present in the drinking water. |
