Saveca, Paulo Sérgio Lourenço Abi, Attoumane Stigter, Tibor Yvan Lukas, Eelco Fourie, Francois
Published in
Frontiers in Water
Drought and water scarcity constrain the socioeconomic development of many (semi-)arid regions of Southern Africa. Moreover, due to the increase of water withdrawals upstream, the Limpopo River is no longer perennial in Mozambique. Fortunately, its river bed can store significant amounts of freshwater, because of the occurrence of thick and often c...
Jaramillo, María F Rengifo, Ruber Restrepo Tarquino, Inés
An index to identify potential recharge zones (PRZs) in alluvial aquifers was developed to protect these zones during land use planning. The PRZ index was designed as an additive index through the selection of five characterization indicators. The variables were then operationalized and categorized to generate a conceptual model of the physical-geo...
Bouderbala, Abdelkader
Published in
Environmental & Socio-economic Studies
Groundwater quality in the alluvial aquifer of Wadi Hachem, Tipaza, was assessed for drinking and irrigation purposes. This alluvial plain covers an area of 13 km² and lies in a semiarid climate. Groundwater is the major source for domestic and agricultural water activities in this region, and it is facing natural conditions and anthropogenic activ...
Merzougui, Touhami Bouanani, Abderezak Rezzoug, Cherif Mekkaoui, Abedrehmene Hamzaoui, Fadoua A. Merzougui, Fatima Z.
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Journal of Water and Land Development
This paper presents the groundwater modelling of Beni Abbes palm grove in Southwest Algeria. Beni Abbes oasis alluvial aquifer is part of the Saoura Valley aquifer system, including a loose slick contained in a Quaternary alluvial embankment that fills the Beni Abbes basin. To address local needs, industry and agriculture, groundwater has been inte...
Szczucińska, Anna Dłużewski, Maciej Kozłowski, Rafał Niedzielski, Przemysław
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Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S
In arid areas, with rivers functioning episodically, alluvial resources are the main source of water. Considering the intensified regulation of discharge in montane catchments, supplying the intermittent rivers, in the nearest future alluvial aquifers will gain key importance for the functioning of people in arid zones. The research aimed to invest...
Dłużewski, Maciej Kozłowski, Rafał Szczucińska, Anna
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Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S
In arid zones, the availability of fresh water is usually very limited because of high salinity, which greatly limits their use for irrigation purposes. High mineralization of water used for irrigation leads to increased soil salinity. The aim of the study was to examine the potential use of alluvial groundwater for irrigation in arid zones. The wo...
Verbovšek, Timotej Pucko, Tatjana
Pucko, Tatjana Verbovšek, Timotej
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Open Geosciences
Hydraulic conductivities (K) can be obtained from pumping and slug tests as well as grain size analysis. Although empirical methods for such estimations are longstanding, there is still insufficient comparison of K values among the various approaches. Six grain-size analysis methods were tested on coarse-grained alluvial sediments from 12 water wel...
Mori, Nataša Simčič, Tatjana Žibrat, Uroš Brancelj, Anton
Habets, Florence Viennot, Pascal Thierion, Charlotte Vergnes, JP. Ait-Kaci, Hamed Caballero, Yvan Ackerer, Philippe Amraoui, Nadia Augeard, B. Besson, F.
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Although nowadays groundwater resources are mostly affected by increasing water abstraction, they will have toface the impact of climate change. Even in a temperate climate as the one in northern France these two driverswill have strong impact on the aquifers. Evolution of groundwater resource is most often studied based onevolution of the rainfall...
