Issues of Sustainability of Coastal Groundwater Resources: Benin, West Africa

Water resources management in the coastal zone: issues of sustainability

Water is one if not the controlling factor of regional development around the Mediterranean, and its political importance can hardly be exaggerated. While water budgets, supply and demand balances are in principle straight forward mass budget problems and amenable to quantitative analysis, the socio-economic framework that ultimately drives the water resources management introduces another laye...

Implementation of a Sustainable Groundwater Quality Monitoring Program in Rural Benin, West Africa

Sustainability of groundwater resources in the Ljubljana area, Slovenia

A detailed study of groundwater flow and solute transport was performed in the recharge area of the Union brewery groundwater resources in Ljubljana. The main study goal was the assessment and prediction of movement of groundwater and urban contaminants through the unsaturated or/and saturated zone of the Pleistocene sandy-gravel aquifer and the risk assessment of contamination of the groundwat...

Investigation of the atmospheric circulation anomalies associated with extreme rainfall events over the Coastal West Africa

This study investigates the atmospheric circulation associated with extreme rainfall events over the coastal West Africa. The rainfall data of this study were obtained from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), spanning from 1981 to 2010. The atmospheric datasets were also obtained from the ERA-Interim reanalysis. The study employed the Z-Index to categorize dry and wet years into...

Assessing the Sustainability of Groundwater Resources Using Water Exploitation and Green Water Scarcity Indicators

Sustainability of groundwater resources means ensuring the permanent availability of essential groundwater services for a long-time. This research was conducted to investigate the sustainability of groundwater resources in the prohibited plain of Behshahr- Bandar-e-Gaz by using water expoliation and green water scarcity indices. Initially, the green water deficit index was calculated based on t...