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Groundwater balance estimation and sustainability in the Sandıklı Basin (Afyonkarahisar/Turkey)

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The Sandıklı (Afyonkarahisar) Basin is located in the southwest of Turkey and is a semi-closed basin. Groundwater is widely used for drinking, domestic and irrigation purposes in the basin. The mismanagement of groundwater resources in the basin causes negative effects including depletion of the aquifer storage and groundwater level decline. To assure sustainability of the basin, determination of groundwater budget is necessary. In this study, the water-table fluctuation (WTF) and the meteorological water budget (MWB) methods were used to estimate groundwater budget in the Sandıklı basin (Turkey). Conceptual hydrogeological model of the basin was used for understanding the relation between budget parameters. The groundwater potential of the basin calculated with MWB method as 42.10 × 106 m3/year. In addition, it is also calculated with simplified WTF method as 38.48 × 106 m3/year.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the research fund of the Süleyman Demirel University, project no. 1545-D-07. The support of Sandıklı Municipality and the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (SHW), XVIII Regional Directorate, Isparta is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Fatma Aksever & Ayşen Davraz

  2. Department of Geological Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, Istanbul, 34469, Turkey

    Remzi Karaguzel

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Aksever, F., Davraz, A. & Karaguzel, R. Groundwater balance estimation and sustainability in the Sandıklı Basin (Afyonkarahisar/Turkey). J Earth Syst Sci 124, 783–798 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-015-0569-6

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