AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 16 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW190052
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Assessment and Zoning of Groundwater Quality in Shiraz Plain Using GIS

Mohammad Pooteh Rigi1* Pejman Shafiee2 Seyed Mehdi Fatehi2
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1 School of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 New Energy and Environment Group, New School of Science and Technology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
AJWEP 2019, 16(4), 87–96; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW190052
Submitted: 12 May 2019 | Revised: 29 August 2019 | Accepted: 29 August 2019 | Published: 6 November 2019
© 2019 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

The results of the evaluation of different interpolation methods for each of the parameters studied in  2006 showed that for calcium, bicarbonate, sodium, adsorption ratios of sodium and sulfate (the Kriging method)  and for the electrical conductivity parameters, the total soluble concentration and magnesium (IDW2 method)  and for chlorine (IDW1 method) have the lowest MAE and MBE and in 2013, for the parameters of bicarbonate,  calcium, total soluble concentration and magnesium (IDW2 method) and for sodium parameters, the adsorption  ratio of sodium and sulfate (Kriging method) and for electrical conductivity and chlorine parameters (LPI method)  were the best methods. Finally, the classification of the district water showed that in 2006 the only Barmshoor,  Doodeman and Shagholein stations had limitations of drinking as term of TH parameter and in 2013 Barmshoor  and Doodeman stations were in the most unfavourable waters as term of TH and TDS parameters.

Keywords
Water quality
Shiraz plain
Kriging method
interpolation
classification.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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