The prime objective of this research is to study and examine the groundwater decline and its effect on the quality of groundwater in aquifer of Torbat Jam plain for a period of 19 years. Torbat Jam plain stretching over an area of about 3500 km2, in northeastern part of Iran. The plain is considered as a semi-arid to arid zone. It has gained substantial importance because of agricultural prospe...

[1] Decision making in water resources management usually requires the quantification of uncertainties. Monte Carlo techniques are suited for this analysis but imply a huge computational effort. An alternative and computationally efficient approach is the first-order second-moment (FOSM) method which directly propagates parameter uncertainty into the result. We apply the FOSM method to both the...

Groundwater resources are becoming the primary factor for maintaining life in arid areas. Understanding land use/cover change and its effect on groundwater depth would enhance land use and groundwater management for typical desert-oasis transition zones. Reduction of groundwater recharge and increase of groundwater exploitation during 1985 and 2010 led to the decrease of groundwater depth in Li...

Abstract Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes were used as natural tracers to identify spatial-temporal control on groundwater wells recharge basic physico-chemical parameters between lower Zab Tigris river South of AlShirqat city-Iraq. the search aimed study relationships in isotope compositions evaluate source recharge. Seven water samples analyzed for stable two periods, (dry wet), 2021. Ther...

Within the scope of the interdisciplinary NASRI research project (Natural and Artificial Systems for Recharge and Infiltration) dealing with river bank filtration processes at Berlin water works, a semi-technical column experiment has been ongoing since January 2003 to simulate river bank filtration. Here a 30 m long group of 6 soil columns is operated by surface water sampled from lake Tegel (...

A substantial reservoir (up to 1 kg ha(-1)) of natural perchlorate is present in diverse unsaturated zones of the arid and semi-arid southwestern United States. The perchlorate co-occurs with meteoric chloride that has accumulated in these soils throughout the Holocene [0 to 10-15 ka (thousand years ago)] and possibly longer periods. Previously, natural perchlorate widely believed to be limited...

To demonstrate the capabilities of Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques and numerical modeling for groundwater resources development in arid areas, specifically for the demarcation of suitable sites for the artificial recharge of groundwater aquifers, a study was carried out in the Maknassy basin, which is located in Central Tunisia. Thematic maps were prepared using a Hydrogeological...

The water budget in clay shale terrain is controlled by a complex interaction between the vertisol soil layer, the underlying fractured rock, land use, topography, and seasonal trends in rainfall and evapotranspiration. Rainfall, runoff, lateral flow, soil moisture, and groundwater levels were monitored over an annual recharge cycle. Four phases of soil–aquifer response were noted over the stud...