Version 1
: Received: 28 July 2019 / Approved: 30 July 2019 / Online: 30 July 2019 (11:35:19 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 8 September 2019 / Approved: 9 September 2019 / Online: 9 September 2019 (08:42:20 CEST)
How to cite:
Asadi, E.; Isazadeh, M.; Samadianfard, S.; Ramli, M. F.; Mosavi, A.; Shamshirband, S.; Chau, K.-W. Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran. Preprints2019, 2019070339. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v2
Asadi, E.; Isazadeh, M.; Samadianfard, S.; Ramli, M. F.; Mosavi, A.; Shamshirband, S.; Chau, K.-W. Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran. Preprints 2019, 2019070339. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v2
Asadi, E.; Isazadeh, M.; Samadianfard, S.; Ramli, M. F.; Mosavi, A.; Shamshirband, S.; Chau, K.-W. Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran. Preprints2019, 2019070339. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v2
APA Style
Asadi, E., Isazadeh, M., Samadianfard, S., Ramli, M. F., Mosavi, A., Shamshirband, S., & Chau, K. W. (2019). Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Asadi, E., Shahab Shamshirband and Kwok-Wing Chau. 2019 "Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v2
Abstract
The key goal of the current study was to determine suitable areas of water pumping for drinking and agricultural harvest in Tabriz aquifer, located in East Azerbaijan province, northwest Iran. In the study area, groundwater is the key foundation of water for drinking and farming requirements. Groundwater compatibility study was conducted by analyzing Electrical conductivity (EC), Total dissolved solids (TDS), Chloride (Cl), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Sodium (Na), Potassium (K), Sulfate (SO4), Total hardness (TH), Bicarbonate (HCO3), pH, carbonate (CO3) and Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR) obtained from 39 wells in the period of 2003 to 2014. For this purpose, the Water Quality Index (WQI) and irrigation water quality (IWQ) index were utilized. The WQI index zoning exposed that the groundwater of the study area for drinking purposes is categorized as excellent, good and poor water. Most drinking water harvested for urban and rural areas are in the class of 'excellent water'. The results revealed that about 37 percent (296 km2) of groundwater has high compatibility, and 63 percent of the study area (495 km2) has average compatibility for agricultural purposes. The trend of IWQ and WQI indexes demonstrates that the groundwater is getting worse over the time.
Keywords
Water Quality Index; irrigation water quality; Tabriz Aquifer
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Shahaboddin Shamshirband
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author