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ArticleSN applied sciences2022

Combining stable isotope and WQI methods to study the groundwater quality: a case study in Essaouira city, Morocco.

Mohammed Bahir, Otman El Mountassir, Driss Dhiba, Abdelghani Chehbouni, Paula M Carreira, Hakam Elbiar

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Mohammed BahirHigh Energy and Astrophysics Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, P.O. Box 2390, 40000 Marrakesh, Morocco.
Otman El MountassirHigh Energy and Astrophysics Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, P.O. Box 2390, 40000 Marrakesh, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0002-2397-2422
Driss DhibaOffice Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP), Ben Guerir, Morocco.
Abdelghani ChehbouniInstitut de Recherche Pour le Développement, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Centre D'études Spatiales de La Biosphère, 31401 Toulouse, France.
Paula M CarreiraCentro de Ciéncias e Tecnologias Nucleares, C2TN/IST, Lisboa University, Lisbon, Portugal.
Hakam ElbiarCentro de Ciéncias e Tecnologias Nucleares, C2TN/IST, Lisboa University, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Groundwater is an important water resource in arid and semi-arid regions. Therefore, this study aimed to assess groundwater's suitability for drinking and irrigation using the Water Quality Index (WQI) and the Irrigation Water Quality Index (IWQI). To this end, groundwater data were collected from 58 sites in 2019 (wet season) and 61 samples in 2020 (dry season) in the Meskala-Ouazzi sub-basin. The Piper diagram showed that Ca-Mg-Cl was the dominant groundwater facies type. The confinement due to COVID-19 has significantly improved the water quality of the Meskala-Ouazzi sub-basin. Instead, approximately 50% of sites showed improved water quality when calculating the WQI and IWQI. However, the sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) showed that most samples below 10 are found in all of the examined samples, which are mostly found, indicating excellent irrigation water, and the Wilcox diagram depicted 20.14% of samples lying in the unsuitable region. Stable isotopes (δ

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COVID-19Essaouira BasinGroundwater qualityIWQIStable isotopeWQI

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