Beyond rules and norms: Heterogeneity, ubiquity, and visibility of groundwaters

C Walsh - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 150 years or so engineers, farmers, scientists, and many others around the
globe have gained access to the waters that lie underground with drilling technology, pumps …

Assessment of groundwater vulnerability to nitrate contamination using an improved model in the Regueb Basin, Central Tunisia

R Missaoui, B Abdelkarim, K Ncibi, Y Hamed… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, Regueb basin has been facing groundwater quality degradation due to the
excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides, which is the result of strong agricultural activities …

Hydrochemical and geothermometry characterization for a geothermal system in semiarid dry climate: The case study of Hamma spring (Northeast Algeria)

K Benmarce, R Hadji, F Zahri, K Khanchoul… - Journal of African Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change has increased the odds of worsening drought in arid and semiarid dry
regions of North Africa. Although the thermal waters have a minimal influence on the yield of …

Spatial variation of groundwater vulnerability to nitrate pollution under excessive fertilization using index overlay method in central Tunisia (Sidi Bouzid basin)

K Ncibi, R Hadji, S Hajji, H Besser… - Irrigation and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major challenges in assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution is the
inadequate factors number and weight. Therefore, to carefully improve the assessment of …

Application of the analytic hierarchy process to weight the criteria used to determine the Water Quality Index of groundwater in the northeastern basin of the Sidi …

K Ncibi, R Hadji, M Hamdi, N Mokadem… - Euro-Mediterranean …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Sidi Bouzid and El Hjal Wadi basins together comprise one of the most
important agricultural regions in Central Tunisia. Exploitation of the groundwater in this …

Multicriteria-analysis of deep groundwater quality using WQI and fuzzy logic tool in GIS: A case study of Kebilli region, SW Tunisia

FB Brahim, E Boughariou, S Bouri - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The suitability of groundwater for drinking and irrigation purposes is potentially disturbed by
a variety of factors, including climate change, salinization and risky agricultural practices …

Bioaccessibility of potentially toxic metals in soil, sediments and tailings from a north Africa phosphate-mining area: Insight into human health risk assessment

F Khelifi, AG Caporale, Y Hamed, P Adamo - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The risk assessment of phosphate mining/processing industrial activities on the environment
and human health is crucial to properly manage and minimize the risks over time. In this …

The Cultural Ecohydrogeology of Mediterranean-Climate Springs: A Global Review with Case Studies

R Pascual, L Piana, SU Bhat, PF Castro, J Corbera… - Environments, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cultures in Mediterranean climate zones (MCZs) around the world have long been reliant on
groundwater and springs as freshwater sources. While their ecology and cultural …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating water balance components and their uncertainty bounds in highly groundwater-dependent and data-scarce area: An example for the Upper …

SR Rusli, AH Weerts, A Taufiq, VF Bense - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2021 - Elsevier
Study region Upper region of the Citarum basin in Indonesia. Study focus Assessing water
balance components in data-scarce regions using different approaches could result in …

Identification of groundwater potential recharge zones using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study of semi-arid midlands Manyara fractured aquifer …

M Makonyo, MM Msabi - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The extraction of groundwater has recently increased due to water scarcity as a result of
human activities including agriculture, industrial and domestic use. This has accelerated the …