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DOI	10.3390/w12102890
	A Detailed Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Kabul Basin, Afghanistan, and Suitability for Future Development
	Jawadi, Hussain Ali; Sagin, Jay; Snow, Daniel D.
通讯作者	Sagin, J
来源期刊	WATER
EISSN	2073-4441
出版年	2020
卷号	12 期号:10
英文摘要	Kabul is one of the most populated cities in Afghanistan and providing resources to support this population in an arid climate presents a serious environmental challenge. The current study evaluated the quality of local Kabul Basin groundwater to determine its suitability water for drinking and irrigation purposes now and into the future. This aim was aided through groundwater parameter assessment as well as determination of Water Quality Index (WQI) developed from 15 observation points near the city. The results of our physicochemical analysis illustrate that groundwater in the majority of areas of the Kabul Basin is not generally suitable for human consumption, and in some cases the concentrations of many contaminants are higher than accepted health standards or water quality benchmarks. The aquifer underlies an arid landscape, and because of this 85% of the samples tested are very hard while just over 13% are classified as hard. Groundwater in the Kabul Basin is typically high in calcium and magnesium and overall classified as a calcium bicarbonate water type. Overall, more than 60% of the analyzed samples had concentrations higher than the World Health Organization (WHO) standard of total dissolved solids (TDS), 10% in total hardness (TH), about 30% in turbidity and more than 90% in magnesium. The results show that based on WQI, without treatment, roughly 5% of groundwater in the studied area is unsuitable for human consumption, while 13.3% is very poor and 40% is poor quality water. Approximately 40% of the assessed groundwater has good quality and could be used as drinking water for future development. Groundwater in some areas shows evidence of pollution and high dissolved solids content, rendering these sources unsuitable for either drinking or irrigation purposes.
英文关键词	groundwater development contamination Kabul Basin Water Quality Index (WQI) physicochemical parameters
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000585307300001
WOS关键词	AQUIFER ; REGION
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327290
作者单位	[Jawadi, Hussain Ali] Bamyan Univ, Fac Geosci, Dept Geol, Bamyan 1601, Afghanistan; [Sagin, Jay] Western Michigan Univ, Dept Geosci, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA; [Sagin, Jay] Nazarbayev Univ, Environm Resource Efficiency Cluster EREC, Nazarbayev Univ Res & Innovat Syst, Nur Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan; [Snow, Daniel D.] Univ Nebraska, Water Sci Lab, Lincoln, NE 68503 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jawadi, Hussain Ali,Sagin, Jay,Snow, Daniel D.. A Detailed Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Kabul Basin, Afghanistan, and Suitability for Future Development[J],2020,12(10).
APA	Jawadi, Hussain Ali,Sagin, Jay,&Snow, Daniel D..(2020).A Detailed Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Kabul Basin, Afghanistan, and Suitability for Future Development.WATER,12(10).
MLA	Jawadi, Hussain Ali,et al."A Detailed Assessment of Groundwater Quality in the Kabul Basin, Afghanistan, and Suitability for Future Development".WATER 12.10(2020).