To be able to overcome water shortages, Abu Dhabi Emirate started an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) project with desalinated seawater (DSW) as source water near Liwa. It is the largest DSW-ASR project in the world (stored volume ~10 Mm3/year), and should recover potable water for direct use. DSW is infiltrated into a desert dune sand aquifer using “sand-covered gravel-bed” recharge basins. ...

The steady response of the free surface of a fluid in a porous medium is considered during extraction of the fluid through a line sink. A conformal mapping approach is used to derive exact solutions to a family of problems in which the line sink is place at the apex of a wedge-shaped impermeable boundary, including the limiting cases of an ubounded aquifer and a flat-bottomed aquifer of finite ...

Pumping tests carried out in the fissured layer of a granitic hard-rock aquifer, interpreted at the observation wells by means of the analytical solution of Neuman and at the pumping wells using that one of Gringarten show the vertical anisotropy of this layer of the aquifer; the horizontal permeability being clearly and systematically higher than the vertical permeability. These results perfec...

This study proposes an empirical approach that can lead to the sustainable management of groundwater resources. This approach enables a comprehensive understanding of an aquifer, delineates distinct hydrological scenarios, and recommends a set of operational activities for each sub-region of the aquifer. The paper focuses on the Coastal aquifer of the Gaza Strip region which has been divided in...

Implementation of aquifer storage recovery (ASR) for water resource management in Florida is impeded by arsenic mobilization. Arsenic, released by pyrite oxidation during the recharge phase, sometimes results in groundwater concentrations that exceed the 10 µg/L criterion defined in the Safe Drinking Water Act. ASR was proposed as a major storage component for the Comprehensive Everglades Resto...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Groundwater compartmentalisation: a geochemical analysis of the structural controls on the subdivision of a major aquifer, Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Bac...