www.jogh.org • journal of global health / December, 2011 • Vol. 1 No. 2 135 Water resources of a country constitute one of its vital assets. India receives an average of 4000 billion cubic meters of rainfall every year, confined to the monsoon season (June through September). Unfortunately, due to lack of storage and crumbling infrastructure, only 18% can be used (1). Apart from the water avail...

Groundwater resources make up an important portion of potable and irrigation water in Iran, making it important to monitor toxic elements of pollutants in these resources in order to protect the inhabitants' health. The current study has been carried out to assess the health risks, caused by trivalent inorganic arsenic-polluted groundwater in Qaleeh Shahin Plain, an important agricultural regio...

regarding to increased use of groundwater resources, it seems necessary to have more accurate knowledge of characteristics of aquifers in order to improved usage and accurate management of these resources. in this study, we simulated groundwater flow of qazvin aquifer usingvisual modflow model, collecting data and statistics, as well as using different studies. the simulation model has operated...

Tens of millions of people in the Bengal Basin region of Bangladesh and India drink groundwater containing unsafe concentrations of arsenic. This high-arsenic groundwater is produced from shallow (<100 m) depths by domestic and irrigation wells in the Bengal Basin aquifer system. The government of Bangladesh has begun to install wells to depths of >150 m where groundwater arsenic concentrations...

Fulfilling the growing water demand, at domestic, industrial and agriculture level, is the most challenging task and groundwater plays the most important role for achieving this demand. In this scenario, proper management of groundwater resources is the most required act, as unmanaged groundwater extraction may cause shrinking of aquifer, sea water intrusion and water quality problems. The simu...

Nowadays the use of remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most powerful cost effective tools to identify and discover the available groundwater resources. In this paper, Lithological Units, Lineaments, Slope, Topography, Drainage density, Vegetation and Isohyets lines have been achieved by stations and through remote sensing and GIS techniques. All layers of diffe...

Introduction: Studying the changes in surface water storage and exchanges with groundwater in the hydrological system of rivers is a prerequisite for water resources management in the basin. In this paper, Zayandehrood River has been studied and the historical series of flow has been used in six hydrographic stations located downstream the Zayandehrood Dam. Materials and Methods: Based on the ...

A series of treaties between Lebanon and Syria on the use Orontes (‘Assi) River’s flows emerged in mid-1990s, being reformed twice to result a finalized 2002 agreement allocating 96 million cubic meters (MCM) out 403 MCM as measured at Hermel Bridge gauge. Focusing area south Ar-Rastan, Syria, this article seeks explore these treaties’ treatment groundwater, ultimately demonstrating that it is ...