Groundwater ecosystems remain poorly understood yet may provide ecosystem services, make a unique contribution to biodiversity and contain useful bio-indicators of water quality. Little is known about ecosystem variability, the distribution of invertebrates within aquifers, or how representative boreholes are of aquifers. We addressed these issues using borehole imaging and single borehole dilu...

A quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) was performed at four managed aquifer recharge (MAR) sites (Australia, South Africa, Belgium, Mexico) where reclaimed wastewater and stormwater is recycled via aquifers for drinking water supplies, using the same risk-based approach that is used for public water supplies. For each of the sites, the aquifer treatment barrier was assessed for its lo...

A large fraction of the fresh water available for human use is stored in groundwater aquifers. Since human activities such as mining, agriculture, industry and urbanisation often result in incursion of various pollutants to groundwater, routine monitoring of water quality is an indispensable component of judicious aquifer management. Unfortunately, groundwater pollution monitoring is expensive ...

The large number of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills and the many hazardous materials which they contain pose a serious threat to both surrounding environment and human populations. Once waste is deposited at the landfill, pollution can arise from the percolation of leachate to the porous ground surface. Contamination of groundwater by such leachate renders it and the associated aquifer un...

Saltwater intrusion is an ideal target for mapping with airborne electromagnetic techniques because of the high electrical conductivity of saline water and its contrast with that of freshwater. Using electromagnetic sensors to measure the electromagnetic response of the ground at several frequencies, information from various depths is obtained. The electromagnetic response is then converted to ...

Abstract Aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) has significant potential to provide largescale seasonal cooling and heating in the built environment, offering a low-carbon alternative fossil fuels. To deliver safe sustainable ATES deployments, accurate numerical modelling tools must be used predict flow heat transport targeted aquifers. This paper presents simulation methodology for based on su...

The objective of this study was to evaluate subaerial taliks’ geology, configuration, ground temperature and groundwater level in the continuous permafrost environment Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia). included geophysical surveys, borehole drilling measurements variation a talik aquifer Shestakovka research watershed. occupies gentle, sandy slope covered by sparse pine forest. Its thickness v...

abstract: in this research, the relationship between geomorphologic factors with underground water resources in zahab plain (in west of kermanshah) has been analyzed using by analyzing-deducing and weighting methods. first, by using of pizometeric and exploratory well data, variation of water table in zahab plain has been comparative analysis with geomorphic unites and then, the zahab watershed...

qorveh – dehgolan aquifer is one of the ground water resources in kurdistan. increase in pumping of water has dropped water table level significantly. this study considers the relationship of fluctuations in precipitation, humidity and evaporation with ground water table level. after preparing the base map and the rainfall data accuracy, isohyetal map of basin was drown. based on isohyetal ma...