Published July 24, 2023 | Version v1
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Decline in Iran's Groundwater Recharge

  • 1. Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, 1417853111, Iran
  • 2. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
  • 3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
  • 4. Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 5. Department of Water Engineering, College of Abouraihan, University of Tehran, Tehran, 3391653755, Iran
  • 6. HydroSciences Montpellier, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, 34090 Montpellier, France
  • 7. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
  • 8. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA

Description

Using a rich database comprising abstractions from more than one million groundwater wells, springs, and Qanats, from 2002 to 2017, here we show a significant decline of around -3.8 mm/yr in Iran's groundwater recharge.

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