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Groundwater is the leading international journal focused exclusively on groundwater.  Since 1963, it has published a dynamic mix of papers on topics including groundwater flow and well hydraulics, hydrogeochemistry and contaminant hydrogeology, application of geophysics, groundwater management and policy, and history of groundwater hydrology.  This bimonthly journal is one you can count on to bring you the practical applications in groundwater hydrology.

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Etiology of Salinity and Water Origin, the Main Dilemma of Badab Sourt, a Unique Travertine Spring

Conceptual hydrogeological model of the study area for circulation of meteoric water in travertine (SP1, SP2, and SP3) and non‐travertine (SP4) springs.

Retrieving Groundwater Depletion and Drought in the Tigris‐Euphrates Basin Between 2003 and 2015

The mean water storage change in the TEB before and after 2007. (a) Mean of 2003 to 2006; (b) mean of 2007 to 2016; and (c) different between the mean of 2003 to 2006 and mean of 2007 to 2016.

Capture Versus Capture Zones: Clarifying Terminology Related to Sources of Water to Wells

Capture zone and contributing area for a single discharging well in a simplified hypothetical groundwater‐flow system. The capture of groundwater discharge to the bounding stream in response to pumping is illustrated by the dashed sections of the groundwater‐flow arrows at the stream. (Figure modified from Paschke et al. 2007.)

Closed Analytic Elements with Flexible Geometry

Single star‐shaped inhomogeneity. (a) Conductivity inside element 100 times greater than outside. Head contours (magenta) and streamlines (black). (b) Associated residual error in head continuity. (c) Conductivity inside element 100 times smaller than outside. (d) Associated residual error in head continuity.

VS2DRTI: Simulating Heat and Reactive Solute Transport in Variably Saturated Porous Media

Simulated results of example problem after 250 d of injection: (a) Temperature (°C); (b) dissolved bromide (mg/L), a conservative inflow constituent; (c) dissolved potassium (mg/L), an inflowing cation that is retarded by exchange for sodium and calcium; (d) dissolved sodium (mg/L), absent where it has been replaced by potassium and enhanced by temperature effect at top edge of plume; and (e) dissolved calcium (mg/L), absent where it has been replaced by potassium and diminished by temperature effect at top edge of plume. The simulated region is 800 m in radial extent and 100 m in depth.

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