Real-Time Management of Groundwater Resources Based on Wireless Sensors Networks

Abstract

Abstract:Groundwater plays a vital role in the arid inland river basins, in which the groundwater management is critical to the sustainable development of area economy and ecology. Traditional sustainable management approaches are to analyze different scenarios subject to assumptions or to construct simulation-optimization models to obtain optimal strategy. However, groundwater system is time-varying due to exogenous inputs. In this sense, the groundwater management based on static data is relatively outdated. As part of the Heihe River Basin (HRB), which is a typical arid river basin in Northwestern China, the Daman irrigation district was selected as the study area in this paper. First, a simulation-optimization model was constructed to optimize the pumping rates of the study area according to the groundwater level constraints. Three different groundwater level constraints were assigned to explore sustainable strategies for groundwater resources. The results indicated that the simulation-optimization model was capable of identifying the optimal pumping yields and satisfy the given constraints. Second, the simulation-optimization model was integrated with wireless sensors network (WSN) technology to provide real-time features for the management. The results showed time-varying feature for the groundwater management, which was capable of updating observations, constraints, and decision variables in real time. Furthermore, a web-based platform was developed to facilitate the decision-making process. This study combined simulation and optimization model with WSN techniques and meanwhile attempted to real-time monitor and manage the scarce groundwater resource, which could be used to support the decision-making related to sustainable management.

Impact of land use/land cover changes on water quality and human health in district Peshawar Pakistan

“…The human population also suffers from water diseases such as methemoglobinemia (blue-baby syndrome) and thyroid effects in bottle-fed infants (less than 6 months old) 5 , 6 caused by nitrate polluted portable water. This rapid increase in population also transforms the natural environment into an anthropogenic environment, which means that the anthropogenic activities would take place at a massive scale, such as industrialization and massive food production activities to meet the food and fiber demand the exponential population growth 7 , 8 . At the dawn of the industrial revolution, humans' life span had decreased due to the consumption of polluted water discharged from the industries and mixed with clean water 9 .…”

“…Real-time groundwater monitoring and sampling provide information about the quality and quantity of available water resources, which are important to understand groundwater's current state in the monitored area 8 . Groundwater monitoring and sampling are complex, difficult to apply to a broad area, and very costly compared to groundwater modeling.…”

Revisión de sistemas de telemetría en ríos: propuesta para el río Magdalena, Barranquilla, Colombia

“…Se concluyó que dicha cuenca tiene mayor ocurrencia humana en sitios urbanos e industriales, porque es importante contar con una buena planificación y gestión del territorio. Open Access bajo la licencia CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) posibles riesgos de inundación por el deshielo de la nieve en las montañas; otra investigación sobre el río Basin (Zhou et al, 2018), estudió la reducción en tiempo real de las aguas subterráneas de esta cuenca. Khan, Alam, Shahid y Suud 2017 Open Access bajo la licencia CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)…”

Impact of Spatio-Temporal change in landuse/landcover on Groundwater Quality and Human Health; A case study of District Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

“…The human population also suffers from water diseases such as methemoglobinemia (blue-baby syndrome) and thyroid effects in bottle-fed infants (less than six months old) (Anku et al 2009; Organization 2017) caused by nitrate polluted portable water. This rapid increase in population also transforms the natural environment into an anthropogenic environment, which means that the anthropogenic activities would take place at a massive scale, such as industrialization and massive food production activities to meet the food and fiber demand the exponential population growth (Sarwar et al 2017;Zhou et al 2018). At the dawn of the industrial revolution, humans' life span had decreased due to the consumption of polluted water discharged from the industries and mixed with clean water (Ritter 2002).…”

“…Real-time groundwater monitoring and sampling provide information about the quality and quantity of available water resources, which are important to understand groundwater's current state in the monitored area (Zhou et al 2018). Groundwater monitoring and sampling are complex, difficult to apply to a broad area, and very costly compared to groundwater modeling.…”