Groundwater is the drinking water source for the majority of rural settlements of district Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study aimed to analyze the groundwater quality and its vulnerability to pollution and to develop its spatial distribution mapping. For this purpose, forty-eight groundwater samples were collected from dug wells, tube wells, and hand pumps of sixteen villages andanalyzed for physicochemical parameters. The XY coordinates of the sample’s sourcesweremarked by Magellan Triton 1500 handheld global positioning system...
