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Guadalupe Díaz-Gutiérrez, Luis Walter Daesslé, Francisco José Del-Toro-Guerrero, Mariana Villada-Canela and Georges Seingier
Groundwater pollution is one of the main challenges in our society, especially in semi-arid Mediterranean regions. This issue becomes especially critical in predominantly agricultural areas that lack comprehensive knowledge about the characteristics and ...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Pedro Gabriel Almeida, Luís Ferreira Gomes and Victor Cavaleiro
The risk of aquifer contamination is determined by the interaction between the pollutant load and the vulnerability of an aquifer. Owing to the decomposition of bodies and degradation of artefacts, cemeteries may have a negative impact on groundwater qua...
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Dayana Carolina Chalá, Edgar Quiñones-Bolaños and Mehrab Mehrvar
Land subsidence is a global challenge that enhances the vulnerability of aquifers where climate change and driving forces are occurring simultaneously. To comprehensively analyze this issue, integrated modeling tools are essential. This study advances th...
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Alex Sendrós, Mahjoub Himi, Lluís Rivero, Raúl Lovera, Aritz Urruela, Josefina C. Tapias and Albert Casas
The basis for the protection and prevention of groundwater pollution lies in the accurate assessment of vulnerability in terms of the exposure of groundwater bodies to contaminants before they are potentially discharged into the environment. The vulnerab...
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Aldo Fiori, Irene Pomarico, Antonio Zarlenga, Vittorio Catani and Guido Leone
This work extends the overlay and index methods for intrinsic groundwater vulnerability, that typically involve the soil surface and the vadose zone, to groundwater (saturated) transport. The method is ?hybrid? as it combines the standard overlay and ind...
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Carmine Massarelli, Maria Silvia Binetti, Mariangela Triozzi and Vito Felice Uricchio
The topic of diffuse pollution is of particular interest from technical, scientific, and administrative management points of view. Diffuse pollution is defined as the contamination or chemical, physical, or biological alterations of environmental matrice...
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Chaloemporn Ponprasit, Yong Zhang, Xiufen Gu, Andrew M. Goodliffe and Hongguang Sun
Groundwater vulnerability assessment helps subsurface water resources management by providing scientific information for decision-makers. Rigorous, quantitative assessment of groundwater vulnerability usually requires process-based approaches such as gro...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Almeida and Victor Cavaleiro
Deposition of corpses in the ground is the most common burial practice, which can allow interactions between polluting compounds and the soil, groundwater, and surface water, which may afterwards lead to negative environmental impacts and risks to public...
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Sérgio Mateus Chilaule, Mercedes Vélez-Nicolás, Verónica Ruiz-Ortiz, Ángel Sánchez-Bellón and Santiago García-López
The degradation of groundwater quality due to nitrate is a widespread issue in heavily agricultural areas and a major concern for public health. Improving knowledge of the intrinsic vulnerability of aquifers with respect to the actual contamination is cr...
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Emna Hfaiedh, Amor Ben Moussa, Marco Petitta and Ammar Mlayah
Hydrogeochemical properties and groundwater quality assessment are very important for the effective management of water resources in arid and semiarid regions. The present investigation is a spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater quality using both chemi...
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