Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Al-Butana Region of Sudan

Assessment of Well drinking Water Quality in Samrab, Dardog and Hattab Communities, Khartoum North, Sudan

“…Abdellah et al (2013Abdellah et al ( ,2014) reported a TDS level ranging between 97 and 2600 mg/l in the southern suburb of Omdurman City and between 128 and 1024 g in some wells in Grand Khartoum City. Moreover, Abdellah et al (2012a) reported that, in the Al-Butana region, groundwater salinity tends to decrease by continuous discharge which replaced by fresh recharge from the low salinity Blue Nile water. Conversely, Al-Redhaiman and Abd-Magid (2002) and Munday and Andrew (2008) incriminated over exploitation and excessive water pumping among factors that may elevate salinity level in groundwater.…”