artificial recharge can be an effective method to raise the groundwater table and to resolve the groundwater crisis in sefid dasht plain. the most important step to successful accomplishment of artificial recharge is locating suitable areas for artificial recharge. hence this research carried out with purpose of determining suitable areas for artificial recharge in sefid dasht plain. slope, sur...

groundwater is among the most important resources of drinking water supply ofthe worldwide population. use of recharge area is one of the methods for artificiallyrecharging groundwater. selection of suitable sites for artificial recharge is very importantand must be carried out accurately. there are different types of land use, only rangelandsare appropriate for artificial recharge because of t...

We present the comparison of two control criteria for the real-time management of a water well field. The criteria were used to simulate the operation of the Hardhof well field in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. This well field is threatened by diffuse pollution in the subsurface of the surrounding city area. The risk of attracting pollutants is higher if the pumping rates in four horizontal w...

The aim of this study is to present a linked simulation–optimisation model to estimate the groundwater recharge rates, their associated zone structures, and hydraulic conductivity values for regional, steady-state groundwater flow models. For the zone structure estimation problem the fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) method was used. The association of zone structures with the spatial distribution...

Mobilization of arsenic and other trace metal contaminants during managed aquifer recharge (MAR) poses a challenge to maintaining local groundwater quality and to ensuring the viability of aquifer storage and recovery techniques. Arsenic release from sediments into solution has occurred during purified recycled water recharge of shallow aquifers within Orange County, CA. Accordingly, we examine...

Effective management of limited water resources in the North China Plain requires reliable calculation of historical groundwater balances at local, sub-watershed scales. These calculations typically are hindered by poorly constrained recharge estimates. Using a simple soil-water balance model, we independently calculated annual recharge from irrigated cropland to unconfined alluvial aquifers un...

Measures of soil and water conservation (SWC) could affect the hydrological process. The impacts of typical measures on groundwater recharge, levels and flow were analyzed based on simulated rainfall experiments and a groundwater model. The three-dimensional finite-difference groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) was calibrated and verified for bare slope, grassland and straw mulching scenarios base...