Wetlands that cover 6% of the world's land surface contain about 12% of the global carbon pool, and therefore the contribution of wetlands to the global carbon cycle is great [1, 2]. Wetlands have countless benefits as they provide humankind, nutrition and building materials, biodiversity, flood control, groundwater recharge, and climate change mitigation. Governments and other institutions have tried to conserve and protect wetlands for more than 40 years, since the Ramsar Convention. Many wetlands have close associations with groundwater. For example, a wetland could feed the aquifer or could be fed from the aquifer. In such cases, the water budget of the aquifer and the health of the wetland ecosystem are connected. So, water resources and wetlands must be managed in an integrated manner in order to ensure the sustainability of the ecosystem [3].
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