Using production well behavior to evaluate risk in the depleted Cambrian‐Ordovician sandstone aquifer system, Midwestern USA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Hadley ◽  
Daniel B. Abrams ◽  
Devin H. Mannix ◽  
Cecilia E. Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Production Well ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
Sandstone Aquifer ◽  
Midwestern Usa

HOW DO AQUIFERS RESPOND TO WET AND DRY PERIODS? A CASE STUDY FROM THE NUBIAN SANDSTONE AQUIFER SYSTEM (NSAS)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karem Abdelmohsen ◽  
◽  
Mohamed Sultan ◽  
Mohamed Ahmed ◽  
Himanshu Save ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aquifer System ◽  
Nubian Sandstone ◽  
Sandstone Aquifer ◽  
Nubian Sandstone Aquifer ◽  
Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System

scholarly journals Groundwater Storage Changes in the Major North African Transboundary Aquifer Systems during the GRACE Era (2003–2016)

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Frappart
Keyword(s):  
Water Loss ◽  
North African ◽  
Groundwater Storage ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
Water Abstraction ◽  
Nubian Sandstone ◽  
Sandstone Aquifer ◽  
Aquifer Systems ◽  
Terrestrial Water ◽  
Transboundary Aquifers

Groundwater is an essential component of the terrestrial water cycle and a key resource for supplying water to billions of people and for sustaining domestic and economic (agricultural and industrial) activities, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. The goal of this study is to analyze the recent groundwater changes which occurred in the major North African transboundary aquifers in the beginning of the 21st century. Groundwater storage anomalies were obtained by removing soil moisture in the root zone (and surface water in the case of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System) from the terrestrial water storage anomalies estimated using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) over the 2003–2016 time period. Spatio-temporal changes in groundwater storage contrast significantly among the different transboundary aquifers. Low changes (lower than 10 km3) were observed in the Tindouf Aquifer System but they were found to be highly correlated (R = 0.74) to atmospheric fluxes (precipitation minus evapotranspiration, P − ET) at annual scale. The GRACE data revealed huge water loss in the North Western Sahara and the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer Systems, above 30 km3 and around 50 km3, respectively. In the former case, the aquifer depletion can be attributed to both climate (R = 0.67 against P − ET) and water abstraction, and only to water abstraction in the latter case. The increase in water abstraction results from an increase in irrigated areas and population growth. For these two aquifers, a deceleration in the water loss observed after 2013 is likely to be attributed either to an increase in rainfall favoring rain-fed agriculture or to measures taken to reduce the over-exploitation of the groundwater resources.

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