<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">A systematic physico &ndash; chemical study of ground water in 16 different localities in Beed district of Maharashtra has been taken up to evaluate its suitability for drinking purpose in the year 2008-09. The </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">physic&ndash;chemical</span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> parameters are such as pH, EC, TDS, TH, TA, Cl^-, Ca⁺⁺, Mg⁺⁺, K⁺, Na⁺ of ground water were studied. In </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">present</span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> study water samples were collected monthly for four months during summer from sixteen selected ground water sources i.e. Bore wells. The values of </span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">physcio</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> &ndash; chemical parameters are compared with standard values suggested by WHO. It is observed that values of TDS, TH, TA</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">,Ca⁺⁺</span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Mg⁺⁺ and Na⁺ have high values than the permissible limit prescribed by WHO.</span></span></p>