We have developed a system to manage groundwater data (geology, hydrology and geochemistry). The system is flexible, readily extensible and adaptable. It can load data in different formats. Loading and cleaning the data is performed by an ETL tool Pentaho Data Integration (aka. Kettle). The coordinates are converted by GeoKettle (spatial fork of Kettle). The database PostgreSQL uses our own dat...

background: although experiments on water quality are time consuming and expensive, models are often employed as supplement to simulate water quality. artificial neural network (ann) is an efficient tool in hydrologic studies, yet it cannot predetermine its results in the forms of maps and geo-referenced data. methods: in this study, ann was applied to simulate groundwater quality and geographi...

Coastal areas are usually the preferred place of habitation for human beings. Anthropogenic activities such as the construction of high-rise buildings and underground transport systems usually require extensive deep foundations and ground engineering works, which may unintentionally modify the coastal groundwater system because the construction materials of foundations are usually of low hydrau...

Groundwater resources from karst aquifers play a major role in the water supply in karst areas in the world, such as in Switzerland. Defining groundwater protection zones in karst environment is frequently not founded on a solid hydrogeological basis. Protection zones are often inadequate and as a result they may be ineffective. In order to improve this situation, the Federal Office for Environ...

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...

A new !O map of southern Nevada groundwater shows a systematic decrease in !O of !5‰ from 36" to 39"N latitude. The variation is consistent with higher-latitude recharge following continuous flow paths along north-south trending graben valleys and systematically increasing in !O due to mixing with lower-latitude, higher-!O recharge. The data do not suggest that large masses of groundwater with ...

In large canal irrigation project areas, integrated management of surface and groundwater resources can improve water use efficiencies and agricultural productivity and also control water logging. Such integrated management requires an estimation of spatial distribution of recharge and ground water flow in the underlying aquifer. Recharge occurs both as percolation losses from fields and seepag...