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A Comprehensive Review on Mapping of Groundwater Potential Zones: Past, Present and Future Recommendations

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Abstract

The over exploitation of groundwater resources is a highly thought-provoking issue, which hinders the goal of sustainable water management worldwide. Hence, it is utmost necessary to identify the groundwater reserves in terms of potential areas/zones, average yield, and seasonal recharge. Within last decades a substantial progress has been observed in the delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones (GPZ) and have successfully applied bi-variate model, Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) models, state of the art Machine Learning (ML) model, Ensemble model and metaheuristics models in the development of GPZ. However, still a research gap exists in the demarcation of GPZ both in terms of groundwater potential model development and groundwater conditioning factor selection which is very significant from the scientific and policy maker’s point of view. Thus, the present review article aspires to render a more vivid understanding of future aspects of groundwater potential model development and the milestone achieved in the past. This review article covers all types of models applied in the demarcation of GPZs, selection of different groundwater conditioning factors, and type of data used (remote sensing and ground truth). The present article also comes up with all possible criteria and statistical methods for the evaluation of the model’s performance and accuracy. Furthermore, recommendation for potential future research direction to enhance the model prediction accuracy is also outlined in the present article which will be highly effective for the groundwater agencies and organisation.

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I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who have contributed to the development of this book chapter. First and foremost, I am thankful to the editor of this book, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important publication. I am also grateful to my supervisor, who provided invaluable guidance and support throughout the writing process. Their feedback and encouragement helped me refine my ideas and improve the quality of my work. I would also like to acknowledge the support of my colleagues, whose insightful discussions and constructive criticism helped shape my thinking on this topic.

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    Sourav Choudhary, Jagriti Jain & Deepak Khare

  2. Hydrological Investigations Division, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 247667, India

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Choudhary, S., Jain, J., Pingale, S.M., Khare, D. (2023). A Comprehensive Review on Mapping of Groundwater Potential Zones: Past, Present and Future Recommendations. In: Balaji, E., Veeraswamy, G., Mannala, P., Madhav, S. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Water Supply, Conservation and Management. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35279-9_6

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