Evaluation of groundwater suitability for irrigation in the Skhirat region, Northwest of Morocco

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zouahri, Abdelmjid ^a   Dakak, Houria ^a   Douaik, Ahmed ^a   El Khadir, Mhamed ^a   Moussadek, Rachid ^a  

^a Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Groundwater; Morocco; Salinity hazard; Sodium hazard

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; HAZARDS; LAND USE; URBAN GROWTH; VEGETABLES; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL ZONES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MOROCCO; PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; SODIUM HAZARDS; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS;

IRRIGATION;

ANION; CALCIUM; CATION; CHLORINE; GROUND WATER; SODIUM; SULFATE; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; IRRIGATION; PERIURBAN AREA; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SALINITY; SODIUM; URBAN AGRICULTURE; WATER QUALITY;

ADSORPTION; ALKALINIZATION; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAND USE; MOROCCO; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SALINITY; SEASHORE; SUBURBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SOIL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

MOROCCO;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MOROCCO; SALINITY; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84957418168     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4184-9     Document Type: Article

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