“…Unfortunately, the groundwater change due to individual sources cannot be known. Consequently, source identification in the past can only give a rough sketch of large-scale hydrology (Wittenberg and Sivapalan 1999, Ruud et al 2004, Wang et al 2005, Misstear et al 2009, or can evaluate a few suspicious sources and related pumping or recharging rates using a large number of observed data in time and space (Aral et al 2001, Tung and Chou 2004, Mahinthakumar and Sayeed 2005, Saffi and Cheddadi 2007, Ayvaz and Karahan 2008, Lin and Yeh 2008, Cheng et al 2009, Saffi and Cheddadi 2010.…”