Megacity pumping and preferential flow threaten groundwater quality
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Megacity pumping and preferential flow threaten groundwater quality
Many of the world's megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Here, using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illustrate how interactions between aquifer heterogeneity and groundwater exploitation jeopardize groundwater resources regionally. Groundwater pumping in Dhaka has caused large-scale drawdown that exten...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12833