In recent decades, there has been a growing emphasis on assessing aquifer vulnerability. Given the availability of spatial data and GIS advantages, mapping groundwater vulnerability become common tool for protecting managing resources. Here, we applied indexing an overlay method to explore combination potential contamination factors needed assess in Mosha aquifer. The from borehole logger chemi...

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 semiarid Mancha Occidental aquifer represents a paradigmatic case of intensive groundwater use for agriculture. Irrigation has proven a catalyst for welfare in the area over the last three decades, if at a significant environmental cost and while raising concerns as to its mid-term sustainability. This paper describes an interdisciplinary exercise of scenario design and modelling, providing...

The European COST action 620 proposed a comprehensive approach to karst groundwater protection, comprising methods of intrinsic and specific vulnerability mapping, validation of vulnerability maps, hazard and risk mapping. This paper presents the first application of all components of this Pan-European Approach to the Sierra de Líbar, a karst hydrogeology system in Andalusia, Spain. The intrins...

introduction drastic model is an index and overlapping model that has been designed for producing vulnerability scores for different points by combining several thematic layers. overlapping distinguished methods are themost applicable methods for evaluatingvulnerability of aquifers because they are cheap, they can directly reach a defined goal, the used data in the methods are accessible or can...