Hydrogeology

Water is a vital resource for human development; its natural mode of occurrence is governed by climatic, geomorphic and geologic characteristics of the land surface. Water resources is a major requirement and driver of socio-economic development. Economic sectors that water caters to include domestic, agriculture and fisheries, industry, recreation, municipality, including waste/effluent disposal, and water transportation. It also plays a prominent role in power and energy generation (Oyebande.,

CHAPTER 2- DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS (METHODOLOGY) 2.1 GENERAL FEATURES Nature of Project : Reorganisation and augmentation of water supply project of Ramnagar Name of Town : Ramnagar Base Year : 2013 Intermediate Year: 2028 Design Year : 2043 2.2 Population Projection Population of the town has been divided into three categories, viz. Residential (Permanent) population, Floating population and Institutional population. It is reported that although more than one lakh tourists

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, is the process in which oil and gas deposits are extracted by pumping a tremendous amount of water and extremely hazardous chemicals into wells at very great depths. The biggest concern about this process is the contamination of aquifers. And different sources of potable water due to the poor control over toxic wastes. In addition, fracturing requires millions of gallons of water per well. And, only in the U.S, fracking has been used more than one

Geochemistry plays an important role the distribution and mobilization of As in groundwater aquifer. To find the influence of geochemical processes of As mobilization in groundwater of the study area, the correlation matrix among As and various physio-chemical parameter are given in Table 4. Pearson correlation matrices show that various physio-chemical parameters pairs of groundwater samples have a significant positive correlations such as TDS–EC (r = 1.000), TDS–Na (r = 0.587), TDS–Ca (r = 0.624)

Back then, people used to think that we had an unlimited amount of groundwater in our aquifers, and we used to pump groundwater at insane rates. We were unaware of the unintended consequences we were causing by draining this much water. In the 1930s farmers noticed the ground had begun sinking. But by the late 1970’s the ground had sunk by 30 feet. Now we know how pumping groundwater can cause environmental changes. We realize our aquifers are running out of water. Now we are doing everything we

This paper reviews the available groundwater governance literature with the specific aim of highlighting and critically examining the role of knowledge in supporting "good governance" of groundwater resources including how knowledge co-generation/co-production may contribute to enhancing cooperation/reducing conflict over managing shared resources. While reviews of global literature do exist, they have thus far only been used to make generic recommendations on the importance of knowledge for groundwater

The Right For Water Visualize that citizens have to go 5 months without showering, living in filth, not being able to flush their toilet. Horrible right? Well sorrowfully, for numerous cresidents in California, that is the life they live. There is currently a 3-year drought in California. Innumerable citizens are compelled to drive miles and miles away in order to acquire water and bathe, while for farmers, they have been allowed to use aquifers frequently to grow their crops. We do not have enough

HYDROLOGIC CYCLE The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration. As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the

1.1 AQUIFER PAREMETER ESTIMATION The transmissivity and storativity was estimated using the Cooper-Jacob (1965) time-drawdown and Theis (1935) recovery methods. The field data was uploaded into the FC program for Aquifer Test Analysis (2014 version) which calculated the values for each method manually. 1.1.1 COOPER-JACOB TIME-DRAWDOWN (1965) Using the Cooper-Jacob method the T and S value had been estimated for early and late time, respectively, by plotting the best fitted straight line on the

Groundwater is water that is contained underground in the soil, or in the pores of a rock. For some places, groundwater is vital. In others, it’s just an additional water source. Pollution is a harmful substance that is introduced to an environment. Groundwater isn’t exactly polluted in the sense that toxic waste seeps into it, but that it is mixed in with other types of water that is exposed to the surface. As for the overexploitation of groundwater, this paper will introduce ways to prevent it