Management of groundwater abstraction and seawater intrusion in the Moghra aquifer, Egypt.

ABSTRACT: Groundwater is being utilized as a major freshwater resource in numerous nations across the world, particularly in arid and semi-arid countries like Egypt. The main objective of this study is to simulate the impact of groundwater abstraction and saltwater intrusion in the Moghra aquifer using MODFLOW and SEAWAT. Various abstraction rate scenarios from wells were modeled for a 100-year cultivation project period to study the impact of abstraction on aquifer drawdown. For 1000 wells, the maximum simulated drawdown equals 54, 66, 85, and 100 m for the abstraction rates of 1000, 1250, 1500, and 1750 m³/day/well, which represents about 18%, 22%, 28%, and 30% of the saturated Moghra aquifer thickness, respectively. The consequence of increasing the abstraction rate is substantial on s

SUBMITTER: Armanuos AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12365243 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature