Determining the optimal consumption for exploiting groundwater in the Ain Al-Faras

Abstract

Groundwater is the mainstay of all economic activities, especially in relation to irrigating crops, watering animals, or settling people and forming rural settlements. It is also a natural resource, especially in dry and semi-dry areas, which provide the most important means of life for humans through three basic factors: water, people and land. The need for groundwater increases and the continuous demand for it increases, which forces people to dig wells to meet their needs for agriculture and daily uses. The urgent need for groundwater shows us the extent of pressures on the land, as well as the trends of its distribution and pattern of spread. The research shows that the study area uses groundwater in many areas by digging wells in the area, which numbered 63 wells. The average discharge capacity of groundwater reached (4-7) liters/second, and the salinity rate in well water reached (2500-3500) degrees. This shows that the water in the study area is low, and the reason is due to the high salinity rate in it, and that the water in the study area is not suitable for drinking because its total salinity exceeds the upper limits permitted for this purpose, but it is suitable for irrigating agricultural crops and animals