Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Water (Switzerland)
Publication Date
10-1-2020
Abstract
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Last period groundwater quality raises big concerns all over the world since it is a limited source of drinkable water and for agricultural and industrial use. While the suitability of the groundwater of Liwa aquifer (Abu Dhabi Emirate) for agricultural use has been previously partially studied, not all the water parameters have been taken into account. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the study of 42 concentrations series of 19 groundwater parameters. We test the hypothesis that the water parameters series recorded at different locations are similar and group the samples in clusters. The main parameters that determine the differences between the clusters are determined by Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Finally, we use a quality index for assessing the water suitability for drinking. The conclusions emphasize the necessity of using more than one technique to evaluate water quality for different purposes and to cross-validate the results.
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ISSN
Publisher
MDPI AG
Volume
12
Issue
10
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Keywords
Groundwater, K-means, Principal component analysis, Water parameters, Water quality index
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Barbulescu, Alina; Nazzal, Yousef; and Howari, Fares, "Assessing the groundwater quality in the liwa area, the united arab emirates" (2020). All Works. 577.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/577
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yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series