Origin of groundwater salinity in the Morsott-El Aouinet basin, Northeastern Algeria: hydrochemical and environmental isotopes approaches

Fehdi, Ch.; Boudoukha, Abderrahmane; Rouabhia, Abdelkader; Salameh, Elias

doi:10.5004/dwt.2011.1205

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“…Although PCA is an exploratory and descriptive method, the treatment aims to identify the main factors that control the chemistry of groundwater [36]. This multivariate statistical method has been widely applied to investigate the phenomena of the environment across the world [37][38][39] and in Algeria [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][40][41][42]. These tools multivariate statistics were used successfully to study the hydrogeochemical processes [16,[43][44][45][46].…”

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Hydrochemical and statistical characterization of groundwater in the Chemora area, Northeastern Algeria

Ghodbane

Boudoukha

Benaabidate

2016

Desalination and Water Treatment

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Tel. +213 0 5 55 83 20 05, Tel./Fax: +213 33 86 97 24, Tel. +213 0 5 51 59 37 47, Tel./Fax: +213 33 86 97 24 A B S T R A C TThis work aims to evaluate the hydrochemical characteristics of a shallow aquifer located between carbonated formations and salt lake in the Chemora region in northeastern Algeria. Hydrochemical, multivariate statistical, and the thermodynamics techniques were used to investigate the hydrochemical evolution within the aquifer. Twenty-five water samples were collected during May 2013 in this the aquifer wells. The results indicate that this shallow water is characterized by sulfate-dominant facies representing about 64% of cases, followed by the chloride with 24%, and the remaining (12%) is represented by the bicarbonate facies. The sulfate facies is acquired mainly by the alteration of pyrite. The saturation index showed that all carbonate minerals are supersaturated and all evaporate minerals are undersaturated which suggest that their soluble component Na + , Cl − , Ca 2+ , and SO 2À 4 concentrations are not limited by mineral equilibrium. The application of the cluster analysis and the principal components analysis based on major ion contents defined 3 main chemical water types reflecting different hydrochemical processes with salinity increases along the groundwater flow.

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“…Knowing these hydrochemical processes is fundamental to determine the origin of groundwater chemical composition. Numerous studies on groundwater quality have been made in this region aiming to understand the mechanisms responsible of this geochemical typology [12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Hydrochemical and statistical characterization of groundwater in the Chemora area, Northeastern Algeria

Ghodbane

Boudoukha

Benaabidate

2016

Desalination and Water Treatment

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“…Employing advanced tools such as remote sensing, geographic information systems, radar data and geo-statistics tools for groundwater mapping, pollution assessment and simulation of groundwater management options in arid environments were common in research (El Alfy et al 2015;Elbeih 2014;Loni et al 2015;Madani and Niyazi 2015;Makkawi 2015;Mallick et al 2015;Schulz et al 2015;Sefelnasr et al 2015;Siebert et al 2014). Examining the issue of increasing groundwater salinity was of significant concern (Farid et al 2015;Fehdi et al 2011;Mhamdi et al 2015;Salameh et al 2014). The irrigation practices in association with groundwater management are heavily investigated (Alaya et al 2014;Frija et al 2015;Zouahri et al 2015).…”

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Estimates of Arab world research productivity associated with groundwater: a bibliometric analysis

Zyoud

Fuchs-Hanusch

2016

Appl Water Sci

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The sustainable management of groundwater resources is a pressing necessity for most countries. As most of the Arab world is facing severe water scarcity, threats of depletion of non-renewable groundwater, and problems of pollution and saltwater intrusions into groundwater aquifers, much effort should be devoted to eliminate these dangers in advance. This work was devoted to bring up insights into Arab world research activities in groundwater, which is a crucial task to identify their status and can help in shaping up and improving future research activities. A bibliometric analysis has been conducted to track these activities. The study identified 1417 documents which represent 3.3% of global research productivity. Egypt was the most productive country (313; 22.1%), followed by Saudi Arabia (254; 17.9%). Total citations were 9720 with an average of 6.9. The h-index of the retrieved documents was 39, and the highest one was 22 for Egypt. The most common subject category was Environmental Science, and the most productive journal was Arabian Journal of Geosciences (99; 7.0%). In international research collaboration, France was the most collaborated country with Arab world (125; 8.8%), followed by the United States (113; 8.0%). The most productive institution was King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia (66; 4.7%). The outcomes shows remarkable improvements in groundwater research activities originated from the Arab world. Even though, constructive efforts should be pursued vigorously to bridge the gaps in groundwater-based research. Moreover, promotion of better evaluation tools to assess the risks arising from the mismanagement of groundwater resources is required urgently.

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Conceptual model for karstic aquifers by combined analysis of GIS, chemical, thermal, and isotopic tools in Tuniso-Algerian transboundary basin

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Origin of groundwater salinity in the Morsott-El Aouinet basin, Northeastern Algeria: hydrochemical and environmental isotopes approaches

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Hydrochemical and statistical characterization of groundwater in the Chemora area, Northeastern Algeria

Hydrochemical and statistical characterization of groundwater in the Chemora area, Northeastern Algeria

Estimates of Arab world research productivity associated with groundwater: a bibliometric analysis

Conceptual model for karstic aquifers by combined analysis of GIS, chemical, thermal, and isotopic tools in Tuniso-Algerian transboundary basin

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