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Sinai Peninsula occupies a part of the arid zone belt of northern Africa and southwestern Asia. The largest ephemeral stream in the Sinai Peninsula is called Wadi El-Arish, which winds down northward to the Mediterranean Sea. The delta of Wadi El-Arish has been built by the heavy floods of the Wadi. The Quaternary aquifer is the main water supply of the delta of Wadi El-Arish and its vicinities. The combined action of aridity and extensive pumping from the Quaternary aquifer led to a noticeable increase in groundwater salinity. The hydrochemistry and isotope hydrology confirm that the Quaternary aquifer is recharged by an old saline groundwater from the Pre-Quaternary. A hydrogeological connection between Quaternary and Pre-Quaternary aquifers in the form of fault(s) should exist to explain the hydro-tectonic regime of this area. The Bouguer gravity map shows the high gravity anomaly of the doubly plunging anticline of Risan Aniza Mountain to the south of El-Arish area, which is a part of the Syrian Arc System of northern Sinai Peninsula. A 3D density contrast model, 3D Euler deconvolution, horizontal derivative and least square separation have been performed. The findings showed that (1) two deep regional faults extending NE-SW, surround the Risan Aniza anticline, and (2) two deep local N-S faults are in the area of Delta Wadi El-Arish. These deep faults are proposed to bring the deep Cretaceous aquifer into contact with the shallow Quaternary aquifer and work as a hydrogeological connection between both aquifers. The present hypothesis has some geological evidences from the subsurface lithology of the nearby wells. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.