Increasing groundwater contamination across the globe triggered the concept of “aquifer
vulnerability”, which has been extensively used worldwide during past three to four decades …

Aquifer vulnerability arises from the degradation of groundwater quality due to a wide range
of contaminants and pollutants. The escalating concern regarding groundwater …

Over the last three to four decades, several methods for assessing groundwater vulnerability
to anthropogenic pollution have been developed. Researchers and policymakers have …

Groundwater has become increasingly vulnerable to quality degradation. An elaborate
understanding of its flow, draft, recharge and pollutant transport processes needs to be …

The concept of groundwater vulnerability was first introduced in the 1970s in France to
recognize sensitive areas in which surface pollution could affect groundwater, and to enable …

Groundwater vulnerability maps are useful for decision making in land use planning and
water resource management. This paper reviews the various groundwater vulnerability …

This research provides a new approach to assess groundwater vulnerability to
contamination from anthropogenic activities and sea water intrusion. The DRASTIC and …

Assessing the vulnerability of groundwater to adverse effects of human impacts is one of the
most important problems in applied hydrogeology. At the same time, many of the …

Hybrid and integrated techniques can be used to investigate intrinsic uncertainties of the
overlay and index groundwater vulnerability assessment methods. The development of a …

Since the need to protect ground water from pollution was recognized, researchers have
made progress in understanding the vulnerability of ground water to contamination. Yet …