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No longer lonely hangouts mostly populated by jet-lagged travelers, the bars and lounges at luxury hotels are now among the city's most desirable drinking destinations.
Table 2 Classification of groundwater based on TDS (Davis and De Wiest 1966) TDS (mg/l) Water type % of samples <500 <span class="lh">Desirable for drinking 82 500–1,000 Permissible for drinking 14 <3,000 Useful for irrigation 4 >3,000 Unfit for drinking and irrigation –.
Davis and De Wiest (1966) classified TDS in water as follows: desirable for drinking (<500 mg/L) and permissible for <span class="lh">drinking (500 1,000 mg/L).
Water with TDS up to 500 mg/l is considered desirable for drinking, 500 1000 mg/l is permissible for drinking, up to 3000 mg/l is useful for irrigation and the greater than 3000 mg/l is unsuitable for drinking and irrigation purposes (Davis and DeWiest 1966).
According to the Davis and De Wiest (1966) (Table 2) classification of groundwater based on TDS, 82 % of the total groundwater samples are desirable for drinking (TDS < 500 mg/l), 14 % permissible for drinking (500 1,000 mg/l) and 4 % is suitable for irrigation purposes.
According to the Davis and De wiest (1966) classification of groundwater samples based on TDS, 60%% of the total groundwater samples in the study area are desirable for drinking (TDS < 500 mg/l), 23.3 % of samples are permissible for drinking (500 1000 mg/l) and 16.6 % are suitable for irrigation purposes.
The Ca2+ limit desirable for drinking water is specified as 75 mg/l (WHO 1997).
According to the above criteria, all the water samples were found desirable for drinking.
As per BIS (2003) standards, 80.8 % of the groundwater samples were desirable for drinking.
Higher percentage of the samples in pre-monsoon falls in the desirable for drinking category compared to post-monsoon season.
None of the sample falls under "desirable for drinking" category, while 75% in both the seasons are suitable for irrigation and the remaining is out of condition for drinking and irrigational uses.
