Hydrology: Current Research

Department of Irrigation and Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Publications

• Research Article   
  Creep of Seawater Intrusion in the Nile Delta Aquifer
  Author(s): Mohamed S. Taha*, Asaad M. Armanuos and Bakenaz A. Zeidan
  
  Background: The Nile Delta aquifer in Egypt subjected to a severe seawater intrusion problems because of the excessive pumping over the last several decades. The seawater has intruded the aquifer up to a distance more than 70.0 km measured from the shoreline along the bottom boundary of the aquifer. Climate change and the rise of sea level will affect the groundwater quality in the Nile Delta aquifer in two methods. First, low and flat lands along the shoreline will be submerged with seawater and the aquifer below these lands will be damaged. Second, pressure heads of sea water will increase causing more intrusion. Seawater intrusion is a process which seawater infiltrates into freshwater aquifers due to natural processes or human activities. Seawater intrusion is caused by decreases in groundwater levels as a result of excessive pumping or by rises in seawater levels.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421.2157-7587.2022.13.425

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