Fluoride Contamination in Groundwater—Some Mitigation Options

Natural groundwater qualityWater quality is “the concentrations of the major cationsCations and anionsAnions originate from not significantly anthropogenically influenced soils and the rocks of a watershed, including groundwater from areas under agricultural use or from areas where land cover changes have occurred over the last centuries”. Excess content of metal (as provided in the drinking water guidelines) in an aquiferAquifers without direct or indirect anthropogenicAnthropogenic sources is called geogenicGeogenic contamination.