Acropolis Technical Campus, Indore

Department of Civil Engineering

Environmental Engineering-I Group/Title : Various standards for water

Evaluation Record Type/Session : Explorative / Jan-June 2018

Name of the Student Enrollment No. 0875CE
Performing on First submission Second submission
Extra Regular

Grade and Remarks by the Tutor

1. Clarity about the objective of experiment
2. Clarity about the Outcome
3. Submitted the work in desired format
4. Shown capability to solve the problem
5. Contribution to the team work
Additional remarks
Grade: Cross the grade.

A B C D F
Tutor

1. Title:
The various standards for water.

2. Outcome:
a) Students must be able to know the various standards of water and waste water disposal.
b) Students must be able to understand the importance of disposal of treated waste water.
c) Study the various physical, chemical, biological parameters of water.

3. Learning Objectives:
a) To know the importance of standards for the treatment.
b) Students should know various standards of any industrial discharge.
c) Students can test and compare the result with the standard parameter .

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4. Theory:
Students should know the various parameters for domestic/ industrial waste water. They
should bring the sample as per sample collection techniques. Test and compare the result with
the standard parameter. They should mark the samples as given below.

a) Type of source.
b) Procedure of sampling.
c) Date and Time of collection.
d) Date and Time of Testing.

Self- assessment – 1
a. Differentiate standards for domestic as well as industrial waste water?
b. What is potable water?
c. Define the importance of treated waste to be discharged?

References:
 WHO guidelines for drinking and waste water constituents.
 Indian Standards Specification for Drinking Water. IS 10500-198
 The BIS (Burro of Indian Standards)drinking water specification:
IS 10500:1991, gives details of the permissible and desirable limits of various parameters
in drinking water.

5. Tutorial Questions/ Additional Questionnaire:

1. What are the constituents of waste water?
2. What is BOD? And the limit of discharge?
3. What is the standard of pH for drinking water?
4. What is the limit of COD for industrial and sewage effluent discharge?

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6. Physical and chemical standard for water in India: -

(IS-10500-1983)

Sr. Characteristics *Acceptable **Cause for

No. rejection
1. Turbidity ( units on N.T.U. Scale) 10 25
2. Colour (Hazen Max. units ) 10 50
3. Taste and Odour Unobjectionable Unobjectionable
4. Ph 6.5 to 8.5 6.5 to 9.2
5. Total dissolved solids (mg/I) 500 1500
6. Total hardness (mg/I) (as CaCO3) 300 600
7. Chlorides (as SO4) (mg/I) 250 1000
8. Sulphates (as SO4) (mg/I) 150 400
9. Fluorides (as F) (mg/I) 0.6-1.2 1.5
10. Nitrates (as NO3) (mg/I) 45 45
11. Calcium (as Ca) (mg/I) 75 200
12. Magnesium (as Mg) (mg/I) 30 100
13. Iron (as Fe) (mg/I) 0.3 1.0
14. Manganese (as Mn) (mg/I) 0.1 0.5
15. Copper (as Cu) (mg/I) 0.05 1.5
16. Zinc (as Zn) (mg/I) 5.00 10.0
17. Phenolic compounds ( as phenol) 0.001 0.002
(mg/I)
18. Anionic detergents (as MBAS) (mg/I) 0.2 1.0
19. Mineral oil (mg/I)
TOXIC MATERIAL
20. Arsenic (as As) (mg/I) 0.05 0.05
21. Cadmium (as Cd) (mg/I) 0.01 0.01

22. Chromium (as hexavalent Cr) (mg/I) 0.05 0.05

23. Cynides (as CN) (mg/I) 0.05 0.05
24. Lead (as Pd) (mg/I) 0.1 0.1
25. Selinium (as Se) (mg/I) 0.01 0.01
26. Mercury (total as Hg) (mg/I) 0.001 0.001
27. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons 0.1 / Ug /1 0.2 /Ug / 1
(PAH)
RADIO ACTIVITY
28. Gross Alpha activity 3p Ci/1 3p Ci/1
29. Gross Beta activity 30p Ci/1 30p Ci/1

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Notes: -
1. *The figures indicated under the column ‘acceptable’ are the limits up to which the water
is generally acceptable to the consumers.
2. **Figures in excess of those mentioned under ‘acceptable’ render the water not
acceptable but still may be tolerated in the absence of alternative and better source but up
to the limits indicated under column cause for rejection above which the supply will have
to be rejected.
3. It is possible that some mine and spring waters may exceed these radio activity limits
and in such cases. It is a necessary to analyze the individual radio nuclides in order to
assess the acceptability or otherwise for public consumption.

Bacteriological Standards: -
1. Water entering the distribution system:

Coli form count in any sample of 100 should be zero. A sample of the water entering the
distribution system the does not conform to this standard calls for an immediate
investigation into both the efficiency of the purification process and the method of
sampling.

2. Water in the distribution system shall satisfy all three criteria indicated below:

B. Coli count in 100 ml of any sample should be zero.

Coli form organism not more than 10 per 100 ml shall be present in any sample.
Coli form organism should not be detectable in 10 ml of any two consecutive samples
or more than 50% of the sample collected for the year.

3. Individual or small community supplies:

B. Coil count should be zero in any sample of 100 ml and a coli form organisms should
not be more than 3 per 100 ml. (If repeated samples show the presence of coliform
organisms, steps should be taken to discover and remove the source of the pollution. If
coli forms exceed 3 per 100 ml, the supply should be disinfected).

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Virological Aspects: -
0.5 mg/I of free chloride residual for one hour is sufficient to inactive virus, even in water
that was originally polluted. This free chloride residual is to be insisted in all disinfected
supplies in areas suspected of epidemicity of infections hepatitis to take care of the safety
of the supply from virus point of view which incidentally takes care of the safety form the
bacteriological point of view as well. For other areas mg/I of free chlorine residual for
half an hour should be insisted.

Waste Water Standards Effluent Standards: -

These standards fix the limits of waste water (after treatment) depending upon the mode
of final disposal via:
a) Discharge into inland surface water.
b) Discharge on land for irrigation purpose.
c) Discharge into public sewers.

7. Quizzes and Viva Questions:

1. What is waste water? How is it generated?
2. What is physical parameters of water?
3. What is the chemical parameters of water?
4. What is the biological parameters of water?
5. Why should waste to be treated before disposal?

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8.INDIAN STANDARDS FOR INDUSTRIAL AND SEWAGE EFFLUENT DISCHRGE

(IS :2490-1982)

Sr. No. Characteristics Standard for water discharge

Into inland On land for Into public

surface irrigation sewers
water purpose

1. B.O.D. (for 5 days at 20 0 C) 30 mg/l 100 mg/l 350 mg/l

2. C.O.D. 250 mg/l - -
3. Suspended solids 100 mg/l 200 600 mg/l
4. Ph 5.5 – 9.0 5.5 – 9.0 5.5 – 9.0
5. Temperature 40 0C - 45 OC
6. Oil and grease 10 mg/l 10 mg/l 20mg/l
7. Cyanides 0.2 mg/l 0.2 0.2
8. Sulphides 2.0 mg/l - -
9. Total residual chlorine 1.0 mg/l - -
10. Fluoride 2.0 mg/l - 15
11. Arsenic 0.2 mg/l 0.2 0.2
12. Mercury 0.01 - 0.01
13. Selenium 0.05 - 0.05
14. Total dissolved solids 2100 2100 mg/l 2100mg/l
15. Sulphates 1000 1000 mg/l 1000mg/l
16. Chlorides 1000 600 mg/l 1000 mg/l
17. Sodium - 60% 60%
18. Boron - 2 mg/l 2 mg/l
19. Gross α and radio activity 10-7 10-8uc/l 10-7uc/ml
20. Gross β and radio activity -6
10 cu/ml 107/cu/ml 10-6cu/ml
21. Lead 0.1 - 1mg/l
22. Copper 3 - 3mg/l
23. Zinc 5 - 15mg/l
24. Hexavalent compound 0.1 - 1mg/l
25. Nickel 3 - 3mg/l
26. Phenolic compound 1 - 5 mg/l
27. Ammonical nitrogen 50 - 7. g/l

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