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The unscientific disposal of wastes into rivers and canals can cause surface water pollution. The surface water and groundwater are fundamentally interconnected and thus one can contaminate the other. In some cases, surface water systems gain water and solutes from groundwater and in others the surface water body is a source of groundwater recharge and causes changes in groundwater quality. For managing the water resources, it is essential to study, how the surface affects the groundwater systems. Mathematical models have been widely used in planning and management of water resources. This paper presents a study where a surface water and groundwater interaction model is developed and applied to a case study. A finite-difference code was developed for the modeling of river water quality. A program is written in MATLAB using the explicit finite difference method. In this study, MODFLOW is used to model the groundwater flow and MT3DMS is used to model the contaminant transport flow in groundwater. Finally, the interaction between the surface water and groundwater was studied from the surface and groundwater quality models.
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Pramada, S.K., Venugopal, S. (2020). Interaction Between Groundwater and Surface Water and Its Effect on Groundwater Quality. In: Singh, R., Shukla, P., Singh, P. (eds) Environmental Processes and Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 91. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38152-3_20
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