Contamination of soils and groundwater is one of the most serious environmental problems.
The sources of contamination are several and include, among others (i) landfills and …

Alluvial aquifers are one of the most exploited and easily accessible aquifer networks across
the world, as they coincide with regions of intensive human settlements. Over the years …

In Cotonou, as in many expanding West African cities, major population growth and
infrastructural development has not kept up with informal settlement development onto …

The rare earth element (REE) contamination of urban wastewater, which was collected from
open sewers and the inlet of a wastewater treatment plant in Cotonou (Benin), was …

Geophysical methods are effectively used to delineate intrusion boundary between the fresh
and saline aquifers because of their intrinsic capability to assess the lateral variations in the …

Several factors can affect the quantity and the quality of groundwater resources, but in
coastal aquifers seawater intrusion is often the most significant issue regarding freshwater …

Seawater intrusion in coastal regions is an imperative ecological issues, and results in an
undesirable consequence on future groundwater resources. To assess and mitigate …

Coastal land reclamation can modify the original hydrological settings that control water
salinity distribution. For low-permeability coastal lands reclaimed for agricultural use, there is …

The coastal Chaouia, located on the Moroccan Atlantic coast, comports three aquifers: a first
Plio-quaternary constitutes the cover, a second Cretaceous located at SW in the zone of …

The following work is an attempt to enhance and optimize the potential exploitation of the
Hammam Sayala thermal spring (NW Tunisia). This hot spring is located at 10 km of South …