Quantification of long-term wastewater impacts on karst groundwater resources in a semi-arid environment by chloride mass balance methods

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 502, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-190

  Schmidt, Sebastian ^a   Geyer, Tobias ^a   Marei, Amer ^b   Guttman, Joseph ^c   Sauter, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c Mekorot Israel National Water COLTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chloride bromide ratio; Groundwater recharge; Jordan Valley; Karst; Monitoring; Natural background concentration

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE/BROMIDE RATIO; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; JORDAN VALLEY; KARST; NATURAL BACKGROUNDS;

AQUIFERS; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INFILTRATION; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); SPRINGS (WATER); WATER QUALITY;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHLORIDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW FIELD; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; INFILTRATION; KARST; MASS BALANCE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SAMPLING; SEMIARID REGION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER QUALITY;

JORDAN VALLEY;

EID: 84884195085     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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