introduction groundwater resources in arid-semiarid zones universally suffer from problems of over-abstraction and declining water tables. in addition to the issues related to quantity, degradation of groundwater quality now assumes major importance in the arid and semiarid regions. in such areas, natural factors such as the low precipitation, combined with high evapotranspiration, result in hi...

in this study multivariate statistical analysis are used to characterize relationships between hydrochemical properties ofthermal and non-thermal springs. four factors for thermal waters and two for non-thermal springs were extracted basedon factor analysis. in thermal springs, the first factor showed high loading on ca, mg, na and k and this factor wasinterpreted as leaching of cations in the ...

The response of twenty acid-sensitive headwater catchments in Nova Scotia to acidic deposition was investigated for the period 1850–2100 using a dynamic hydrochemical model (MAGIC: Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchments). To ensure robust model simulation, MAGIC was calibrated to the long-term chemical trend in annual 5 lake observations (13–20 years). Model simulations indicated t...

The determination of recharge areas needs to support the groundwater conservation in southern volcanic Bandung area. This study aims determine area based on environmental isotopes and hydrochemical. A sampling 26 was carried out at springs, dug wells, drilling wells. variation chemistry principally is controlled by a combination ion exchange, silicate weathering, calcite, dolomite dissolution m...

Freshwater contamination remains a challenging issue for the sustainable management of wetland ecosystems. This study aims to evaluate water quality Jhilmila Lake, Kanchanpur, Nepal by adopting standard test procedures, geochemical indices, and multivariate statistical analysis. The surface samples were collected during postmonsoon season in 2018 assess hydrochemical parameters such as pH, elec...

Hydrochemical patterns across groundwater-fed wetlands, especially carbonate and redox gradients, can influence phosphorus (P) availability by controlling its distribution among different soil pools. We explored these linkages by comparing shallow (5–20 cm) soil properties along groundwater flowpaths in two rich fens, a marl fen, and a poor fen. Organic matter content, bulk density, and total e...

The main objective of this paper is to systematically analyze the performance of water sample classifications for different data representations. We compare the classification of full data representation to the classification of data items in a lower dimensional space obtained by the projection of the original data on the space formed by first principal components, and further, on the space of ...