Data on assessment of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation in rural area Sarpol-e Zahab city, Kermanshah province, Iran

Hamed Soleimani; Abbas Abbasnia; Mahmood Yousefi; Ali Akbar Mohammadi; Fazlollah Changani Khorasgani

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2017.12.061

Data on assessment of groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation in rural area Sarpol-e Zahab city, Kermanshah province, Iran

Data Brief. 2018 Jan 3:17:148-156. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.12.061. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Authors

Hamed Soleimani¹, Abbas Abbasnia¹, Mahmood Yousefi¹, Ali Akbar Mohammadi², Fazlollah Changani Khorasgani¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran.

Abstract

In present study 30 groundwater samples were collected from Sarpol-e Zahab area, Kermanshah province of Iran in order to assess the quality of groundwater in subjected area and determining its suitability for drinking and agricultural purposes. Also the variations in the quality levels of groundwater were compared over the years of 2015 and 2016. Statistical analyses including Spearman correlation coefficients and factor analysis display good correlation between physicochemical parameters (EC, TDS and TH) and Na⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Cl^- and [Formula: see text] ionic constituents. Also in order to assess water quality for irrigation we used the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) classification which is based on SAR for irrigation suitability assessment. In addition, the residual sodium carbonate (RSC), %Na, PI, KR, SSP, MH, EC characteristics were calculated for all samples and used for assessment of irrigation suitability. Based on these indicators, for every two years, the quality of water for agriculture is in good and excellent category. The Piper classification for hydro geochemical facies indicates that the water in the study area is of Ca-HCO₃^- type. However, the study of water hardness shows that more than 80% of samples are in hard and very hard water class. Therefore, there is a need for decisions to refine and soften the water.

Keywords: Groundwater quality index; Iran; Rural area; Sarpol-e Zahab.