Prof Dr Muhammad Shafqat Ejaz Back Ground Groundwater (GW) as a - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

13th Symposium: “Water Stress” April 27, 2019 1135 - 1205hours

Prof Dr Muhammad Shafqat Ejaz

 Back Ground

› Groundwater (GW) as a Major Resource › Issues and Threats to the GW Resource

 Conventional GW Mapping Strategies  Latest GW Mapping Strategies

 Groundwater forms an integral part of

the water cycle.

 Groundwater supplies 1/2 of all drinking

water in the world (UNESCO-WWAP, 2009)

 Groundwater Irrigation and conjunctive

use of groundwater is under practice for agriculture production system for centuries.

 Groundwater supplies 43% of the global

consumptive use in irrigation (Siebert et al., 2010

World’s aggregated groundwater abstraction is 1,000 km3 per year

• 67% of all groundwater is used

for irrigation (food production)

• 22% of all groundwater is used

for domestic purposes (drinking water and sanitation)

• 11% of all groundwater is used

for industry

(Ref: https://www.un- igrac.org/what-groundwater

Food Production 67% Domestic 22% Industrial 11%

 Surface

water resources are particularly vulnerable to pollution, and are often limited in magnitude, particularly in arid regions.

 Groundwater

resources are hidden and

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poorly understood, but they are widespread, relatively easy to protect from contamination, and their development potential is great.

 Shallow groundwater in particular is relatively easy to access,

and suitable for small scale development for domestic, livestock, and irrigation use in less developed countries.

 Groundwater resources are coming under increasing threats

from growing demands, wasteful use, and contamination.

 Increasing water demands in urban and rural areas put increasing

pressures on the use of groundwater.

 Increasing contamination of the resource as a result of urban,

industrial and agricultural expansion, make it essential to properly manage these resources to guarantee their long term sustainability and to preserve water quality.

 Soil salinization is often associated with irrigation practices but is also

driven by natural groundwater processes.

 Integrated catchment management including groundwater is the

key to solving the continuously expanding environmental problems

• f salinity, water logging and land degradation as well as the

preservation of ecosystems.

Many cities have experienced rapid growth of urban & industrial waste disposal to the groundwater

Potential threats to GW Resource

.....thus, necessitating a focused GW quality management monitoring, using sampling piezometers.

Early warning of potential threats to Aquifer + GW supply quality

 Existing Groundwater usage/level survey – Monitoring  Geological and topographical maps  Geophysical Methods (Depth to ground water and its quality)  Borehole Investigations (Litho logs, Fence diagram, strata characterization, etc)  Production bore Investigations

 Aquifer properties  Well Capacity Analysis

 Observation Well/Piezometer Network (SCARPs Monitoring Organization-

SMO)  DTW Mapping (Pre- and Post-Monsoon)  Water Quality Mapping

 Hydrogeologic investigations carried out in 1950s and 1960s, in the

Indus Plain (Ref: Unites States Department of the Interior, 1967;WAPDA, 1980a; WAPDA, 1980b)

 3322 test holes were drilled,  1587 tube wells were installed and  856 pumping test were carried out  Characterization

› The Indus Plain is underlain by deep, mostly, over 300m (1000 feet), deposits

• f unconsolidated and highly permeable alluvium deposited by river Indus

and its tributaries in a subsiding tectonic depression lying between the Himalayas and contiguous mountain ranges and Plateau

› The bulk of the alluvium consists primarily of fine to medium sand, silt and

• clay. Fine grained deposits of low permeability (silts and clays) generally are

discontinuous so that sands, making up 65 to 75 percent of the alluvium in most areas serve as a unified and highly transmissive aquifer.

 Aquifer Parameters (on average)

› Average specific yield

19 percent for Punjab aquifers and 13 percent for Sindh aquifers.

› Lateral hydraulic conductivity

 84 m/day (0.0032 ft/second) in Punjab and 29 m/day (0.0011 ft/second) in Sindh.

› Anisotropy Ratio

 55:1 in the Punjab and 30:1 in Sindh

Oct 2002 Oct 2010

 Lahore - In 2010, there were about

467 tubewells operated by WASA. total groundwater withdrawal was

• f the order of 1300 cfs. With this

groundwater withdrawal, annually pumped groundwater volume was 1161 MCM (0.94 MAF)

 Groundwater in Lahore varies

from 20 to 45 m below NSL

Increasing

demands

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ground-water resources and its vulnerability to contamination are creating a need for improved scientific information and analysis techniques to better understand and map ground-water systems.

Mathematical

GW Hydrodynamic Models help in understanding and map GW Resources:

›Simulation Models ›Optimization Models

 Since the 1960s, numerical simulation models have been

important tools for the assessment of ground-water flow systems and ground-water development strategies

 These models are used to test specific water-resource

management plans, or, in a trial-and-error approach, to select a single plan from a few alternative plans that best meets management goals and constraints.

 Because of the complex nature of ground-water systems,

large number of engineering, legal, and economic factors that

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affect ground-water development and management, the process of selecting a best operating procedure or policy can be extremely difficult.

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Extent of Areas with Water Table within 1.5m Depth in 2020

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Future GW Mapping in LBOD-Nawabshah

• 1. April 1993-Before Functioning
• f Tubewells in LBOD-

Nawabshah Component Project

• 2. April 1998-Current

Management Practices

• 3. April 2003-Continuation of

Existing Practices

• 4. April 2003-Tubewells

Operation at Installed Capacity

• 5. April 2003-Tubewell Operation

at Installed Capacity in Critical Areas only



1989

 Recharge: 46.4 MCM/yr  Discharge: 54.6 MCM/yr  Net withdrawal: 8.2 MCM/yr



2004

 Recharge: 43.2 MCM/yr  Discharge: 62.1 MCM/yr  Net withdrawal: 18.9 MCM/yr

 In some cases, however, the model may determine that none

• f the possible strategies are able to meet the specific set of

management goals and constraints.

 Such outcomes, while often not desirable, can be useful for

identifying the hydrologic, hydro-geologic, and management variables that limit water-resource development and management options.

 Mathematical

programming techniques are among the earliest and most commonly used for optimal groundwater management.

 In common, they share formulations involving a goal that

attempts to

› minimize or maximize a single-objective or multi-objective function,

subject to

› a series of constraints on variables describing the state of the system,

such as

 hydraulic heads  concentrations  limits on dependent and decision variables, such as pumping and recharge rates.

 In the simulation-optimization approach, the modeler specifies

the desired attributes of the hydrologic and water-resource management systems (such as minimum stream flow requirements

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maximum allowed ground-water level declines) and the model determines, from a set of several possible strategies, a single management strategy that best meets the desired attributes.

 The

use

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combined simulation-optimization models greatly enhances the utility of simulation models alone by directly incorporating management goals and constraints into the modeling Process

 GRACE - Gravity Recovery and

Climate Experiment

To monitor the variations in groundwater storage, Pakistan Council

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Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) used NASA’s Satellite Mission data in Punjab

 GRACE is made up of a pair of

identical satellites that, together, can map tiny variations in Earth's gravity, allowing scientists to track the motions of mass around and within the globe.

http://www.pcrwr.gov.pk/hq.php?view_st

 Sur’ah Mulk

ُكيِتْأَي نَمَف اًرْوَغ ْمُكُؤاَم َحَبْصَأ ْنِإ ْمُتْيَأَرَأ ْلُق نيِِعم ٍاَمِِ م– Say, "Have you considered: if your water was to become sunken [into the earth], then who could bring you flowing water“