Groundwater resource evaluation of urban Bulawayo aquifer

Water SA

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-34

  Rusinga, Freeternity ^a   Taigbenu, A E ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Groundwater flow; Groundwater resource evaluation; Numerical modelling; Pumping tests; Urban groundwater

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DROUGHT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEWERS;

ABSTRACTION RATES; PUMPING STRESSES; PUMPING TESTS; RECHARGE ESTIMATES;

GROUNDWATER;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODELING; RECHARGE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

AFRICA; BULAWAYO [ZIMBABWE]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 14744297710     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v31i1.5117     Document Type: Article

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