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Ground water contamination is always an unfavorable incident of the surrounding largely because ofpotential manmade actions, physical and chemical constitution, rapid industrialization, acidification, waste disposal,road accidents, nitrate, and uncontrolled use of pesticides, mine wastewater and insufficient care taken in sewagedisposals. The source of contamination identifying technique requires systematic planning and appropriate selectionmethod looking to the objectives. In recent past, GIS-based geostatistical modeling, multivariate statistical analyses,Artificial Neural Networks and surface geophysical techniques have been used to identify the sources of pollution acrossthe India using basic geology and hydrogeology of the location and type of specific contaminant of affected area.Literature study states that Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, As, Sr, Ba, and Pb were the major heavy metal along with physicaland chemical pollution parameters monitored on sampling points from a hydro geochemical survey on surface andgroundwater of industrial area of country. In India, the industrial area of central and southern Gujarat, Rajasthan,Tamlinadu, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai and Mumbai were leading state noticed with metal pollution in water and soil.This review study focused on the significant research work of identification of various sources of ground watercontamination in different states of India.

Mukesh A. Modi, Dr. N J Shrimali, “A study on various approaches for identification of sources of ground water contamination: An Indian context”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 15, pp. -, January 2018.