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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
engineering
Modeling Groundwater Flow and Seawater Intrusion in the Coastal Aquifer of Wadi Ham, UAE
Water Resources Management, Volume 26, No. 3, Year 2012
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Groundwater pumping from Kalbha and Fujairah coastal aquifer of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has increased significantly during the last two decades to meet the agriculture water demands. Due to the lack of natural replenishment from rainfall and the excessive pumping, groundwater levels have declined significantly causing an intrusion of seawater in the coastal aquifer of Wadi Ham. As a result, many pumping wells in the coastal zone have been terminated and a number of farms have been abandoned. In this paper, MODFLOW was used to simulate the groundwater flow and assess the seawater intrusion in the coastal aquifer of Wadi Ham. The model was calibrated against a five-year dataset of historical groundwater levels and validated against another eleven-year dataset. The effects of pumping on groundwater levels and seawater intrusion were investigated. Results showed that reducing the pumping from Khalbha well field will help to reduce the seawater intrusion into the southeastern part of the aquifer. Under the current groundwater pumping rates, the seawater will continue to migrate inland. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Authors & Co-Authors
Sherif, Mohsen M.
United Arab Emirates, Al Ain
United Arab Emirates University
Kacimov, Anvar
Oman, Muscat
Sultan Qaboos University
Akbar Javadi, A. A.
United Kingdom, Exeter
University of Exeter
Ebraheem, A. M.
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Ministry of Environment and Water
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Citations: 104
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s11269-011-9943-6
ISSN:
09204741
Research Areas
Environmental