The stable-isotopic composition of water and sulfate from the raudhatain and Umm Al Aish freshwater fields, Kuwait

Estimating groundwater recharge for a freshwater lens in an arid region: Formative and stability assessment

“…However, the soil infiltration rates within the depression were low (Grealish et al, ; Parsons Corporation, ), so the mechanism of recharge was unclear. Robinson and Al Ruwaih () and Ebrahim et al () used stable isotope ratios of groundwater at Al‐Rawdatain to constrain the age of recharge associated with recent rainfall events. Because the δ 18 O and δ 2 H values showed no sign of evaporation, they concluded that infiltration of rainwater was fast.…”

“…The existence of that pre‐development data, as well as the quality and quantity of that data, makes Rawdatain an ideal and potentially unique candidate to use for evaluating the formative and potentially changing dynamics of lenses in arid regions. A number of studies have been dedicated to the hydrogeological aspects of the depressions in the Rawdatain basin and the general hydrogeology of the area (Al‐Dousari, Milewski, Din, & Ahmed, ; Al‐Senafy et al, ; Bergstrom & Aten, ; Din, Al Dousari, & Al Ghadban, ; Ebrahim, Siwek, & Al‐Ruwaih, ; Grealish, Omar, & Quinn, ; Kwarteng, Viswanathan, Al‐Senafy, & Rashid, ; Milewski, Sultan, Al‐Dousari, & Yan, ; Parsons Corporation, ; Robinson & Al Ruwaih, ; Viswanathan, Al‐Senafy, Mukhopadhyay, Kodittuwakku, & Al‐Fahad, ). These studies are discussed in detail in Sections 2.2 and 2.3.…”