scholarly journals Optimization of Groundwater Exploitation in an Irrigation Area in the Arid Upper Peacock River, NW China: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture and Ecology

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8903
Author(s):  
Yujuan Su ◽  
Fengtian Yang ◽  
Yaoxuan Chen ◽  
Pan Zhang ◽  
Xue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Water Source ◽  
Withdrawal Rate ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Local Agriculture ◽  
Euphrates Poplar ◽  
Ecological Water Level ◽  
Peacock River

Groundwater is the main irrigation water source in the Upper Peacock River. As fast enlargement of irrigation areas continues in recent years, the groundwater level declines continuously and has posed a threat to the sustainability of local agriculture and ecology. A numerical model was established with the code MODFLOW–2000 in order to predict the declining trend of groundwater level and formulate measures to counter the overexploitation, in which the river–aquifer interaction was elaborated and characterized by field survey. The results show that under current intensity of groundwater withdrawal, the levels of both unconfined and confined waters would decline continuously in 7 years from 2015. To stop the groundwater level from declining on the regional scale, the withdrawal rate should be compressed by 45% with respect to that in 2015. Moreover, taking consideration of the constraint of maintaining the ecological water level in the vicinity of the Euphrates Poplar forest in the study area, the withdrawal rate should be compressed 70% for seven towns around the forest.

Machine-learning-based regional-scale groundwater level prediction using GRACE

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1027-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pragnaditya Malakar ◽  
Abhijit Mukherjee ◽  
Soumendra N. Bhanja ◽  
Ranjan Kumar Ray ◽  
Sudeshna Sarkar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Groundwater Level Prediction

scholarly journals Water Use Conflict and Coordination between Agricultural and Wetlands—A Case Study of Yanqi Basin

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3225
Author(s):  
Mengyao Jiang ◽  
Shuntao Xie ◽  
Shuixian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Water Use ◽  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Lake Recovery ◽  
Yanqi Basin

Increased groundwater extraction leads to the decrease of the extent of wetlands due to the implementation of a water-saving transformation project in an arid irrigation area. The application of integrated mitigation tools and strategies in China have increasing significance. In this study, an integrated approach (SWAT-MODFLOW) was followed; it is based on a soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) coupled with a modular three-dimensional finite difference groundwater model (MODFLOW). Recharge and evaporation values were estimated by SWAT and were then used to simulate groundwater in a MODFLOW model. Calibration (over the years 2000–2010) and validation (over the years 2010–2016) were performed, based on observed groundwater-level data; results showed that the combined SWAT-MODFLOW provides more accurate simulation and prediction of the dynamic changes of surface water and groundwater in irrigation areas than results from individual MODFLOW models. This method was applied to the Yanqi Basin, which is one of the most appropriate arid agricultural basins for modeling lake wetland and groundwater in China. The correlation coefficients (R2) between the simulated and real groundwater level are 0.96 and 0.91 in SWAT-MODFLOW and MODFLOW, respectively. With the gradual increase in the extraction to 248%, 0.62 × 108 m3 of groundwater discharged into the lake became −2.25 × 108 m3. The lake level drops 1.3 m compared with the current year, when the groundwater exploitation increases by 10 × 108 m3/year. Overall, the results of the coupling model offer scientific evidence for agricultural water management and lake recovery, so as to enhance the water use coordination.

scholarly journals Analysis of Water Cycle in Weizhou Island of Beihai City, Guangxi Province, Part II: Study On Groundwater Exploitation Plan

2018 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 02047
Author(s):  
Shunfu Zhang ◽  
Changjun Liu ◽  
Chuanke Li ◽  
Sili Long ◽  
Jian Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Flow ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Seawater Intrusion ◽  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Variable Density ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Guangxi Province ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Groundwater Levels

To relieve the drop of groundwater and seawater intrusion in Weizhou Island caused by overexploitation, the analysis model of precipitation-runoff and variable-density groundwater flow in Weizhou Island was established and the model’s parameter identification results were used to investigate groundwater level and seawater/freshwater interface changes under different groundwater exploitation plans. Thereafter, a rational groundwater exploitation plan could be made to prevent the lowering of groundwater levels caused by ground water overexploitation and ecological deterioration caused by seawater intrusion. This could help accelerating the recovery of ground water and maintaining ecological system.

Evidence of layered piezometry system within the Chalk aquifer in parts of SE England

2020 ◽  
pp. qjegh2019-175
Author(s):  
Ilias Karapanos ◽  
Mahmoud Jaweesh ◽  
Daniel R. Yarker ◽  
Robert C. Sage ◽  
Alessandro Marsili ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Layered System ◽  
Lithostratigraphic Units ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Chalk Aquifer ◽  
Deep Boreholes

The Chalk aquifer is often considered as a single, homogeneous, isotropic groundwater system in regional groundwater management studies, even though it has been subdivided into several different lithostratigraphic units. Low-permeability layers, including marl bands and hardgrounds, extend on a regional scale and define different layers within the Chalk. Four case studies in different locations of the Chalk aquifer of SE England are presented: (1) a multi-level observation borehole in the Upper Colne catchment in Hertfordshire; (2) different water levels in shallow and deep boreholes in the River Ver catchment; (3) artesian conditions and rises in the groundwater level during drilling in the Chiltern Hills; and (4) groundwater level separation in a public water supply borehole in Kent. The evidence clearly shows a layered system in the Chalk and vertical hydraulic discontinuity within the studied sequences. The current conceptual model of the Chalk aquifer should be enhanced to include this new understanding and to update the existing numerical groundwater models. This will, in turn, increase confidence in the current decision support tools for environmental sustainability and the management of water resources in the Chalk aquifer.

Protection and management of groundwater-dependent ecosystems: emerging challenges and potential approaches for policy and management

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather MacKay
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Groundwater Availability ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems ◽  
Policy Shifts

The protection of ecosystems associated with groundwater, and thus potentially vulnerable to groundwater exploitation, is only now being recognised as an important aspect of water management. Although there has been a gradual increase in scientific understanding of the links between groundwater availability and ecosystem health, a significant challenge remains in the development and implementation of policy that adequately addresses the protection of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. There is no single right way to solve the problem of protecting groundwater-dependent ecosystems, while still allowing the use of groundwater to support social and economic development, poverty alleviation and improved food and water security. This paper provides a global perspective in examining the potential impacts of the lack of policy, or poor implementation of policy, related to groundwater-dependent ecosystems, and discusses emerging approaches in this field. The following two important factors are considered in the paper: first, the difficulty of managing typically local- and regional-scale problems associated with groundwater exploitation, by using national-scale policy interventions and regulation; second, the need to shorten the cycle from science to policy and regulation, and thence to management activities on the ground, in order to encourage policy shifts in the short to medium term that better reflect the available scientific knowledge of groundwater-dependent ecosystems.

Analysis of Sustainable Deep Groundwater Development Scenarios in Huantai County

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 3040-3044
Author(s):  
Shi Lei Chen ◽  
Xue Yuan Li ◽  
Kai Bian ◽  
Ying Wang Zhao ◽  
Bo Li
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Domestic Water ◽  
Deep Groundwater ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
The Status ◽  
Exploitation Status

On the basis of the geology and hydrogeology, a three-dimensional numerical groundwater model in the study area was developed to evaluate the deep groundwater resources and avoid the groundwater level declining. According to the long-term water supply plan, water resources characteristics and exploitation status quo of Huantai county, three kinds of groundwater utilization scheme had been designed. The best sustainable groundwater exploitation scheme is determined by using the numerical model to simulate three kinds of mining schemes and analyze the corresponding groundwater flow field. The result shows that maintaining the status quo mining conditions will make the groundwater level decline further. Only reducing industrial exploitation and keeping domestic water mining can improve the conditions, but still difficult to solve the problem. The aim of utilization of deep groundwater can achieve only by reducing disordered water exploitation for production and living.

scholarly journals Characteristics and causes of groundwater dynamic changes in Naoli River Plain, Northeast China

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2603-2615
Author(s):  
Du Xinqiang ◽  
Chang Kaiyang ◽  
Lu Xiangqin
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Kendall Test ◽  
Hydrodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
River Plain ◽  
Observation Wells ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Groundwater Dynamic

Abstract Identification of groundwater dynamic behavior and its mechanism is the basis of groundwater protection and management. In Naoli River Plain (NRP), an important agricultural cultivation base and wetland in China, the trend of groundwater dynamic change is complicated under natural climate and human activities. Based on the methods of the Mann–Kendall test, Sen's slope estimation and correlation analysis, groundwater hydrodynamic characteristics and causes were identified. Within 68 observation wells from year 2000 to 2015, there are 28, 30 and 10 wells, accounting for 41.2%, 44.1% and 14.7%, that belong to rising, declining and relatively stable change trends, respectively. The average groundwater rising and declining rates are 0.19 m/year and 0.26 m/year respectively. The groundwater level was increasing or stable in the areas where there was no intensive groundwater exploitation, such as wetland, mountain foregrounds, residential lands and dry farmland. The groundwater level was declining obviously in the paddy fields with groundwater as the source of irrigation water. Thus, the groundwater dynamics in NRP were affected both by human activities of groundwater irrigation and climate change. The carrying capacity of groundwater for agricultural cultivation has been overloaded in some areas, and a conjunctive utilization of surface water and groundwater is needed urgently in NRP.

scholarly journals Influence of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activities on Groundwater Level in the Northern Huangqihai Basin, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Jin ◽  
Zihe Wang ◽  
Yiping Zhao ◽  
Huijun Ding ◽  
Yufei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Elastic Coefficient ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Groundwater Environment ◽  
Coefficient Method

Abstract The variation in the groundwater level, which is an indicative factor that can reflect changes in both groundwater level and groundwater quantity, was selected as the factor to be analyzed. Rainfall and groundwater exploitation were chosen as the representative factors of climate change and anthropogenic activities, respectively. By applying the elastic coefficient method and other mathematical statistical methods, the influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities on groundwater was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The northern Huangqihai basin was chosen as the study area. The rainfall in the study area showed an increasing trend from 1996–2020, while most variations in groundwater level were negative. This result indicated that the positive influence of rainfall on the variation in the groundwater level in the study area was not enough to offset the negative influence of groundwater exploitation. The correlation between anthropogenic activities and variations in the groundwater level was lower in wet years than in normal years but the highest in dry years. Based on the comparative method of the slope changing ratio of cumulative quantity and the elastic coefficient method, it was determined that the contribution rate of climate change to the variation in groundwater level was 22.08% and that of human activities was 77.92%. Thus, the sustainable development of the groundwater environment can be realized by positively guiding anthropogenic activities and minimizing negative influences.

scholarly journals Factors influencing surface water and groundwater interaction in alluvial fan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanao Meng ◽  
Changlai Xiao ◽  
Xiujuan Liang ◽  
Ge Wang ◽  
Ying Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
River Runoff ◽  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Alluvial Fan ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Surface Water And Groundwater ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In this study, the surface water balance method was used to calculate the interaction between surface water and groundwater (SGW) in the Taoer River alluvial fan in Jilin Province, China, from 1956 to 2014. The automatic linear model was used to determine the key and non-key influencing factors, and correlation analysis was performed to evaluate their relationship with one another. River runoff and groundwater level were the key factors affecting the SGW interaction, and sand–gravel exposure in the fan was more conducive to SGW interaction. There was a positive correlation between runoff and SGW interaction, and the relationship between the groundwater and surface water levels was correlated and affected by groundwater exploitation and groundwater runoff. Groundwater exploitation and evaporation and precipitation indirectly influenced the SGW interaction by affecting the groundwater level and river runoff key factors, respectively, and were considered non-key factors.

scholarly journals Self-optimizer data-mining method for aquifer level prediction

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 724-736
Author(s):  
Omid Bozorg-Haddad ◽  
Mohammad Delpasand ◽  
Hugo A. Loáiciga
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Level ◽  
Hybrid Algorithm ◽  
Water Source ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Mining Method ◽  
Parameter Calibration ◽  
Groundwater Levels ◽  
Municipal Water Supply ◽  
Predictive Skill ◽  
Observation Wells

Abstract Groundwater management requires accurate methods for simulating and predicting groundwater processes. Data-based methods can be applied to serve this purpose. Support vector regression (SVR) is a novel and powerful data-based method for predicting time series. This study proposes the genetic algorithm (GA)–SVR hybrid algorithm that combines the GA for parameter calibration and the SVR method for the simulation and prediction of groundwater levels. The GA–SVR algorithm is applied to three observation wells in the Karaj plain aquifer, a strategic water source for municipal water supply in Iran. The GA–SVR's groundwater-level predictions were compared to those from genetic programming (GP). Results show that the randomized approach of GA–SVR prediction yields R2 values ranging between 0.88 and 0.995, and root mean square error (RMSE) values ranging between 0.13 and 0.258 m, which indicates better groundwater-level predictive skill of GA-SVR compared to GP, whose R2 and RMSE values range between 0.48–0.91 and 0.15–0.44 m, respectively.

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