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Importance of Hydrological and Hydrogeological Studies in Wetlands: Examples from Turkey

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Providing the necessary water and nutrients for human beings to survive, and having a wide variety of plant and animal species within its body, has always made wetlands important throughout human history. Wetlands are not ordinary water bodies. It is a common life union that includes the smallest microorganism, the fish and birds that form the top link of the food chain, and the human communities that benefit from the system and live in dependence on it. Hydrogeological and hydrogeochemical studies help us to determine the type of water in wetlands, recharge–discharge limits, and wetland water storage capacities. Interpretation of wetlands by hydrogeological tools begins with determining the hydrological basin of wetland. Other important steps are determining the classification, hydrological components, water budget, detailed geological map, and hydrogeological properties of rocks and recharge–discharge relationship with water table maps, analyzing hydrogeochemical tools, and building a hydrogeological conceptual model. If we evaluate wetlands hydrogeologically in Turkey, besides drought, excessive pumping of groundwater for agricultural, industrial, and urbanization purposes has caused large drawdowns of the water table in and around wetlands. Apart from these, groundwater and surface water pollution are one of the biggest problems in the wetland’s hydrological basins due to agricultural and industrial facilities.

I want to dedicate this chapter to the memory of my advisor: Prof. Dr. Sevki FILIZ.

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Somay-Altas, M. (2021). Importance of Hydrological and Hydrogeological Studies in Wetlands: Examples from Turkey. In: Jawad, L.A. (eds) Southern Iraq's Marshes. Coastal Research Library, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66238-7_8

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