Abstract
Monitoring Groundwater Variability of Faisalabad District Using GIS Track: Water Resources Author(s): Hamaad Khan In Pakistan, groundwater contamination has become a hot issue in recent years. Due to decrease in sweet water availability farmers are using the alternative sources of irrigation including groundwater, sewage, and drainage water. Problem arises from the continuous use of such poor quality waters that are resulting in the development of secondary salinity of productive soils. Since testing of water quality of all domestic and irrigation wells is not economical on large scale. One of the frequently used strategies is to develop GIS data based maps of groundwater quality and depth to water table variation from the tubewells located in the poor quality water areas for testing their salinity and sodicity status. A survey study was conducted with the specific objectives to demark the sweet and brackish groundwater zones in Faisalabad district and to develop the GIS groundwater data base of Faisalabad district. Hamaad Khan Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences University of Agriculture Faisalabad , Punjab 042 PK Phone: 03006673810 Fax: not E-mail: KHAMAAD@HOTMAIL.COM |
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