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Soil characteristic of the area ( cost escalation).

Vegetation cover

River basin area near the site.

Quality of runoff water.

Geology of the area ( cost escalation)

Hydrogeology of the area ( it should be up to the concerned authority to be well aquainted and should have related data ).

Ground water condition in weathered aquifer & underlying fractured zone( This data the concerened department should have)

Geophysical survey…

It is the age of packaged drinking water as everybody is becoming conscious about the quality of water consumed by  man. This has led to mushrooming of mineral water plants around the country thus leading to heavy exploitation of the underground water resources on one hand while mass urbanization and concreteness is leading to very little scope for percolation of surface water into the aquifers.

The after effect of this phenomena is that dissolved and undissolved minerals and…