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FLUORIDE ASSESSMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DRINKING WATERS IN JHABUA DISTRICT OF MADHYA PRADESHAbstract
Humans need water. Life need water. Drinking, irrigation, hydroelectricity, industry, transit, sanitation, leisure, and more require water. Nonetheless, most water is utilized for drinking and farming. Hence, clean water is vital to life. Ground water is rainwater that seeps through soil pores, joints, and rock fractures. Groundwater supplies drinking, household, and 60% of the nation\'s farmland irrigation (FAI 2011).
Life need water. It covers approximately three fourths of the planet and is odorless and tasteless. 2.5% of Earth\'s water is fresh, while 98.8% is ice and groundwater. Groundwater provides most drinking and agricultural water on Earth. Ground water with excessive dissolved ions is unsafe for home usage. Groundwater contains anions such carbonate, bicarbonate, chloride, sulphate, and cations like sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Water also includes minor levels of lithium, fluoride, nitrate, selenium, and arsenic. Excess of each ion depletes or poisons soil, plants, animals, and humans, posing health risks. These particular ions affect water quality and agricultural irrigation. Water provides micronutrients to humans and animals. Long-term supplementation of drinking water ions like fluoride and selenium improves health. Fluoride is important for animal and human development since. In some states, low water-supplemented fluoride is good for health. Unfortunately, much fluoride degrades drinking water and causes fluorosis and other health issues in children. Fluoride isn\'t needed by plants.
KEYWORDS : Fluorosis, Defluorination, Fluoride, Groundwater.