The groundwater balance in alluvial plain aquifer at Dehgolan, Kurdistan, Iran

Amini, Ata; Homayounfar, Vafa

doi:10.1007/s13201-016-0445-9

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“…This aquifer is classified as overexploited and is on the list of aquifers that has a ban on new well construction issued by the Ministry of Energy of Iran. This area has an average elevation of 1,876 m above sea level and has a dry and cool climate based on the De Martonne climate classification (Amini and Homayounfar 2017).…”

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Groundwater sustainability assessment based on socio-economic and environmental variables: a simple dynamic indicator-based approach

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The Dehgolan aquifer, which lies in semiarid western Iran, was evaluated using a multi-influencing factor (MIF) analysis to determine groundwater sustainability. Eight indicators, including climatic variability, groundwater exploitation (pumping), groundwater quality, groundwater vulnerability, public participation, legal framework, water productivity, and occupation related to groundwater, were quantified and placed into a series of thematic maps within a GIS framework. Each factor was weighted based on the analyses obtained from the MIF model and the stacked maps were summed to yield a final map showing the degree of sustainability within the groundwater basin. The final groundwater sustainability map showed that 4% of the basin was in a critically unsustainable zone, 30% in an unsustainable zone, 40% in a semisustainable zone, 25% in a sustainable zone, and 1% in an ideally sustainable zone. The final map was validated using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) method, cross-tabulation, and chi-square tests using groundwater-level decline as a test proxy. The analysis assessed the correlation between water levels that exhibited declines versus the degree of unsustainability of water levels and sustainable water use. The area under the curve was calculated to be 88%, cross-tabulation 64.4%, and the chi-square value was 260.5 with 4 degrees of freedom and values <0.05 (3.627E −55 ), which suggest that the final map has statistical significance. The sustainability analysis developed is useful as a baseline for development of governance laws to implement management methods in groundwater basins and it can be applied to a wide range of aquifer types in variable climates worldwide.

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“…Geologically, Dehgolan basin is part of Sanandaj-Sirjan zone and has the same geological history as Iran central zone. However, its structure is more similar to the Zagros (Alavi, 1994;Amini and Homayounfar, 2016). The maximum elevation of this area is about 2880 m from the sea In this research, the ERA-I reanalysis model published by ECMWF has been used to perform 3D ray tracing technique.…”

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Atmospheric phase screen estimation for land subsidence evaluation by InSAR time series analysis in Kurdistan, Iran

Haji-Aghajany

Amerian

2020

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

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“…Groundwater is the source of drinking water in many parts of the world. While in many countries in recent years, the quantity and quality of this valuable resource are diminished (Amini and Homayounfar 2017;Gharibreza et al 2018). The Water Quality Index (WQI) is one of the indices used to assess the quality of groundwater (Bhimanagouda, et al 2020).…”

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Spatio-temporal variations of groundwater quality index using geostatistical methods and GIS

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Appl Water Sci

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A groundwater quality map serves as a deterrent mechanism that provides insight into likely environmental health predicaments. The objective of this study was to create map and evaluate the quality and changes in groundwater during the study period in Erbil, Iraq. Based on the 13 groundwater parameters, the water quality index (WQI) was calculated for 61 wells from 2015 to 2017 for wet and dry seasons. To generate WQI maps, two geostatistical analyst tools in Geographical Information Systems, including Kriging and Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) were used. For determining the most suitable method, statistical indices were applied to the obtained data. The results showed that the Kriging method increases the prediction accuracy compared to the IDW method. The water quality in 2017 was decreased compared to the previous years and the WQI was increased from 1.64% to 11.47%. Untreated domestic and industrial wastewater causes groundwater pollution which was the main reason for the decrease in the water quality of Erbil city.

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The groundwater balance in alluvial plain aquifer at Dehgolan, Kurdistan, Iran

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Groundwater sustainability assessment based on socio-economic and environmental variables: a simple dynamic indicator-based approach

Groundwater sustainability assessment based on socio-economic and environmental variables: a simple dynamic indicator-based approach

Atmospheric phase screen estimation for land subsidence evaluation by InSAR time series analysis in Kurdistan, Iran

Spatio-temporal variations of groundwater quality index using geostatistical methods and GIS

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