Identification of controlling processes of groundwater quality in a developing urban area using principal component analysis

Hydrogeochemistry is an important tool for the evaluation of the effect of human activities on aquifer system. Sixty eight groundwater samples were collected from bore wells during pre- and post-monsoon from Nagpur , a fast growing city in India, to assess the spatial controlling processes of groundwater contamination using principal component analysis (PCA). Groundwater has variable total dissolved solid (TDS) and total hardness (TH) values...