Assessment of Ground Water Quality (A Case Study of Mando, Igabi Local Government Area, Kaduna State

This study examines the quality of ground water in the Mando area of Kaduna State's Igabi Local Government Area. A total of twenty (20) water samples were obtained at random from various places around the study region (ten (10) bore-hole water samples and ten (10) hand dug well water samples). Except for the heavy metals analysis, which was done at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Kaduna State, these samples were analysed at the National Water Resources Institute Kaduna's Water Quality Laboratory. For both categories of water samples, the investigation revealed disparities in the average level of physiochemical and microbial concentration. However, this variance in concentration is still below the allowable limit of both the World Health Organization (W.H.O) and the National Standards for Drinking Water Quality (NSDWQ) standards for water quality, making it acceptable. Heavy metal concentrations such as lead and chromium are the same in both samples in the study area, which are above WHO and NSDWQ guidelines. For both kinds of samples, the average level of physiochemical and microbial concentration is as follows: for bore-hole water sample: Electrical Conductivity is 109.56 Ms/cm, Turbidity is 0.07 NTU, Total Dissolved Solid is 54.5 ppm, Temperature is 25.2°C, Color is 8.6 TCU, Ph is 6.4, Total alkalinity is 51.3, Nitrate is 25.72, Chloride is 22, Total Hardness is 39.52, Salinity is 35.8, Fluoride is 0.53, Iron is 0.012, Sulphate is 3.6.

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