Groundwater is the main source of water supply in Jordan. Due to lower precipitation rates in recent years, the surface water is increasingly limited. Research on groundwater vulnerability helps protect this main source of water supply and assists in the development of plans to confront the deterioration and contamination of aquifers from wastewater and agricultural activities in order to prote...

Apulia, in the absence of surface water, is one of the Italian regions which satisfy their water requirements by drawing large quantities (over 40%) of its water from underground resources. The large amounts drawn from these resources in the last few years due to increasing human activity on the territory has determined a general and inevitable reduction of the quality of the underground water ...

Water is the most important substance on Earth. While not a mineral itself, water rules the mineral kingdom since interaction with water is fundamental to all geological processes. And water can even slip into the mineral kingdom by freezing into ice. Water occurs in the hydrologic cycle as soil water, groundwater and surface water. We also find water vapor in the atmosphere and frozen water in...

water plays a vital role in the development of activities in an area. the surface water resources are inadequate to fulfill the water demand. productivity through groundwater is quite high as compared to surface water, but groundwater resources have not yet been properly exploited. keeping this view, the present study attempts to select and delineate various groundwater potential zones for the ...

The areas with typical municipal sewage discharge river and irrigation water function were selected as study sites in northeast China. The samples from groundwater and river sediment in this area were collected for the concentrations and forms of heavy metals (Cr(VI), Cd, As, and Pb) analysis. The risk assessment of heavy metal pollution was conducted based on single-factor pollution index (I) ...

The estimated health impact of naturally occurring fluoride is considered to be more widespread than arsenic (WHO, 2004). From the known global distribution of endemic fluorosis, the most affected regions are in arid to semi-arid climatic zones. Fluoride (F) in its most common form is found in several geological environments including igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and leaching of F...

Please cite this article in press as: Wong, C.I., et Hydrol. (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhyd Understanding the sources and processes that control groundwater compositions and the timing and magnitude of groundwater vulnerability to potential surface-water contamination under varying meteorologic conditions is critical to informing groundwater protection policies and practices. This is ...

The U.S. Department of Interior has identified the Truckee River basin as highly likely for potential water supply conflict in the future. A critical water supply to the Truckee River is outflow from Lake Tahoe, and surface and groundwater contributions from the Martis Valley hydrographic area. This paper highlights the development of an integrated surface water and groundwater model, GSFLOW, i...

Arsenic pollution became a great problem in the recent past in different countries including Bangladesh. The microlevel studies were conducted to see the spatial variation of arsenic in soils and plant parts contaminated through ground water irrigation. The study was performed in shallow tube well command areas in Sadar Upazila (subdistrict), Faridpur, Bangladesh, where both soil and irrigation...

spatiality assessment of groundwater pollution is very important to determine water quality condition, pollution sources and management decisions. in this case, gis and geostatistics methods can be useful tools. spatiality of groundwater quality parameters, in relation with various land uses, can be very extremely. therefore water samples from 52 wells in the kurdan area were analyzed in this s...