947
Views
64
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Toward operational methods for the assessment of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability: A review

, , , , , , , , & show all
Pages 827-884 | Published online: 04 May 2016

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Read on this site (1)

Sylvain Gagné, Marie Larocque, Daniele L. Pinti, Marion Saby, Guillaume Meyzonnat & Pauline Méjean. (2018) Benefits and limitations of using isotope-derived groundwater travel times and major ion chemistry to validate a regional groundwater flow model: example from the Centre-du-Québec region, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques 43:2, pages 195-213.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (63)

Miguel Moreno-Gómez, Rudolf Liedl, Catalin Stefan & Julia Pacheco. (2024) Theoretical analysis and considerations of the main parameters used to evaluate intrinsic karst groundwater vulnerability to surface pollution. Science of The Total Environment 907, pages 167947.
Crossref
G. Meyzonnat, S. Musy, J. A. Corcho-Alvarado, F. Barbecot, D. L. Pinti, R. Purtschert, J.-M. Lauzon & R. McCormack. (2023) Age distribution of groundwater in fractured aquifers of the St. Lawrence Lowlands (Canada) determined by environmental tracers (3H/3He, 85Kr, SF6, CFC-12, 14C)Distribution des âges des eaux souterraines dans des aquifères fracturés des Basses terres du Saint-Laurent (Canada) déterminée par des traceurs environnementaux (3H/3He, 85Kr, SF6, CFC-12, 14C)Distribución de la edad de las aguas subterráneas en acuíferos fracturados de St. Lawrence Lowlands (Canadá) determinada por trazadores ambientales (3H/3He, 85Kr, SF6, CFC-12, 14C)加拿大St. Lawrence低地裂隙含水层根据环境示踪物 (3H/3He, 85Kr, SF6, CFC-12, 14C) 确定的年龄分布Distribuição das idades da água subterrânea em aquíferos fraturados na Terras Baixas de St. Lawrence (Canadá) determinadas por traçadores ambientais (3H/3He, 85Kr, SF6, CFC-12, 14C). Hydrogeology Journal 31:8, pages 2139-2157.
Crossref
Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Saravanan Ramasamy & Basant Yadav. (2023) Assessing the future groundwater vulnerability of an urban region under variable climatic and land use conditions. Urban Climate 52, pages 101691.
Crossref
Faisal Baig, Mohsen Sherif, Ahmed Sefelnasr & Muhammad Abrar Faiz. (2023) Groundwater vulnerability to contamination in the gulf cooperation council region: A review. Groundwater for Sustainable Development 23, pages 101023.
Crossref
Hua Zhang, Xiyin Zhou, Xubo Lv, Xiangqin Xu, Qiaoran Weng & Kun Lei. (2023) Exploration of the factors that influence total phosphorus in surface water and an evaluation of surface water vulnerability based on an advanced algorithm and traditional index method. Journal of Environmental Management 342, pages 118155.
Crossref
Thomas Hein, Alexander Auhser, Flavia Byekwaso, Wolfram Graf, Adriane Hoevel, Martin Schmid, Michael Stockinger, Christine Stumpp, Martin Tschikof, Hatice Tuerk & Gabriele Weigelhofer. (2023) Research on coupled socio‐ecohydrological systems—implementing a highly integrative and interdisciplinary research agenda in the Doctoral School “Human River Systems in the 21st Century ( HR21 )” . River Research and Applications.
Crossref
Mario A. SorianoJr.Jr., Joshua L. Warren, Cassandra J. Clark, Nicholaus P. Johnson, Helen G. Siegel, Nicole C. Deziel & James E. Saiers. (2023) Social Vulnerability and Groundwater Vulnerability to Contamination From Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction in the Appalachian Basin. GeoHealth 7:4.
Crossref
Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Almeida & Victor Cavaleiro. (2023) Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment to Cemeteries Pollution through GIS-Based DRASTIC Index. Water 15:4, pages 812.
Crossref
Aldo Fiori, Irene Pomarico, Antonio Zarlenga, Vittorio Catani & Guido Leone. (2023) Extending the Overlay and Index: A Simple Method for Assessing Aquifer Vulnerability in a Combined Vadose Zone—Groundwater Flow System. Water 15:2, pages 364.
Crossref
Luc Aquilina, Christine Stumpp, Daniele Tonina & John M. Buffington. 2023. Groundwater Ecology and Evolution. Groundwater Ecology and Evolution 3 37 .
Andrew J. Boulton, Maria Elina Bichuette, Kathryn Korbel, Fabio Stoch, Matthew L. Niemiller, Grant C. Hose & Simon Linke. 2023. Groundwater Ecology and Evolution. Groundwater Ecology and Evolution 525 550 .
Abdelouahed Fannakh & Andrea Farsang. (2022) DRASTIC, GOD, and SI approaches for assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution: a review. Environmental Sciences Europe 34:1.
Crossref
Chiara Zanotti, Marco Rotiroti, Mariachiara Caschetto, Agnese Redaelli, Sonia Bozza, Michela Biasibetti, Laura Mostarda, Letizia Fumagalli & Tullia Bonomi. (2022) A cost-effective method for assessing groundwater well vulnerability to anthropogenic and natural pollution in the framework of water safety plans. Journal of Hydrology 613, pages 128473.
Crossref
Mario A. SorianoJr.Jr., Nicole C. Deziel & James E. Saiers. (2022) Regional Scale Assessment of Shallow Groundwater Vulnerability to Contamination from Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction. Environmental Science & Technology 56:17, pages 12126-12136.
Crossref
Fabrizio Rama, Gianluigi Busico, José Luis Arumi, Nerantzis Kazakis, Nicolò Colombani, Luigi Marfella, Ricardo Hirata, Eduardo E. Kruse, Paul Sweeney & Micòl Mastrocicco. (2022) Assessment of intrinsic aquifer vulnerability at continental scale through a critical application of the drastic framework: The case of South America. Science of The Total Environment 823, pages 153748.
Crossref
Adil Salhi, Sara Benabdelouahab, Mahjoub Himi, Tarik Benabdelouahab, Jamal Eddine Stitou El Messari, Mohamed Draoui & Albert Casas Ponsati. (2022) A new decision-oriented groundwater protection model: framework and implementation in a case study in Morocco. Sustainable Water Resources Management 8:3.
Crossref
M. C. Kirlas, D. Κ. Karpouzos, P. E. Georgiou & K. L. Katsifarakis. (2022) A comparative study of groundwater vulnerability methods in a porous aquifer in Greece. Applied Water Science 12:6.
Crossref
Nasrin Taghavi, Robert K. Niven, David J. Paull & Matthias Kramer. (2022) Groundwater vulnerability assessment: A review including new statistical and hybrid methods. Science of The Total Environment 822, pages 153486.
Crossref
Ioannis Vrouhakis, Evangelos Tziritis, Georgios Stamatis & Andreas Panagopoulos. (2022) Groundwater Vulnerability Analysis of Tirnavos Basin, Central Greece: An Application of RIVA Method. Water 14:4, pages 534.
Crossref
Sorja Koesuma, Umi Rosidah & Ari Handono Ramelan. (2022) Groundwater Vulnerability Zones Mapping Using DRASTIC and GOD Methods in Krendowahono Village, Karanganyar Regency. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 989:1, pages 012002.
Crossref
O. Ilamurugan, A. Jothibasu & S. Anbazhagan. (2022) Geospatial technology and modified DRASTIC model to assess the groundwater pollution vulnerability along a stretch of Cauvery River, South India. Environmental Earth Sciences 81:3.
Crossref
Daniela Ducci & Mariangela Sellerino. (2022) A Modified AVI Model for Groundwater Vulnerability Mapping: Case Studies in Southern Italy. Water 14:2, pages 248.
Crossref
Baisakhi Chakraborty, Sambhunath Roy, Amit Bera, Partha Pratim Adhikary, Biswajit Bera, Debashish Sengupta, Gouri Sankar Bhunia & Pravat Kumar Shit. (2021) Groundwater vulnerability assessment using GIS-based DRASTIC model in the upper catchment of Dwarakeshwar river basin, West Bengal, India. Environmental Earth Sciences 81:1.
Crossref
Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Saravanan Ramasamy, Sreemanthrarupini Nariangadu Anuthaman & Saravanan Karuppanan. (2021) New DRASTIC framework for groundwater vulnerability assessment: bivariate and multi-criteria decision-making approach coupled with metaheuristic algorithm. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 29:3, pages 4474-4496.
Crossref
Thomas Hein, Christoph Hauer, Martin Schmid, Gernot Stöglehner, Christine Stumpp, Thomas Ertl, Wolfram Graf, Helmut Habersack, Gertrud Haidvogl, Rebecca Hood-Novotny, Gregor Laaha, Günter Langergraber, Susanna Muhar, Erwin Schmid, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Stefan Schmutz, Karsten Schulz, Gabriele Weigelhofer, Verena Winiwarter, Damiano Baldan, Alba Canet-Marti, Markus Eder, Peter Flödl, Katharina Kearney, Risper Ondiek, Bernhard Pucher, Matthias Pucher, Lena Simperler, Martin Tschikof & Cong Wang. (2021) The coupled socio-ecohydrological evolution of river systems: Towards an integrative perspective of river systems in the 21st century. Science of The Total Environment 801, pages 149619.
Crossref
Maryam Torkashvand, Aminreza Neshat, Saman Javadi & Hossein Yousefi. (2020) DRASTIC framework improvement using Stepwise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) and combination of Genetic Algorithm and Entropy. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28:34, pages 46704-46724.
Crossref
Mario A SorianoJrJr, Helen G Siegel, Nicholaus P Johnson, Kristina M Gutchess, Boya Xiong, Yunpo Li, Cassandra J Clark, Desiree L Plata, Nicole C Deziel & James E Saiers. (2021) Assessment of groundwater well vulnerability to contamination through physics-informed machine learning. Environmental Research Letters 16:8, pages 084013.
Crossref
Alexandre Gauvain, Sarah Leray, Jean Marçais, Clément Roques, Camille Vautier, Frédéric Gresselin, Luc Aquilina & Jean‐Raynald de Dreuzy. (2021) Geomorphological Controls on Groundwater Transit Times: A Synthetic Analysis at the Hillslope Scale. Water Resources Research 57:7.
Crossref
Maryam Torkashvand, Aminreza Neshat, Saman Javadi & Biswajeet Pradhan. (2021) New hybrid evolutionary algorithm for optimizing index-based groundwater vulnerability assessment method. Journal of Hydrology 598, pages 126446.
Crossref
G. Medici, P. Baják, L.J. West, P.J. Chapman & S.A. Banwart. (2021) DOC and nitrate fluxes from farmland; impact on a dolostone aquifer KCZ. Journal of Hydrology 595, pages 125658.
Crossref
Giacomo Medici, Nicholas B. Engdahl & Jeffery B. Langman. (2021) A Basin-Scale Groundwater Flow Model of the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System in the Palouse (USA): Insights for Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment. International Journal of Environmental Research 15:2, pages 299-312.
Crossref
Lamine Boumaiza, Julien Walter, Romain Chesnaux, Karthikeyan Brindha, Lakshmanan Elango, Alain Rouleau, Przemyslaw Wachniew & Christine Stumpp. (2021) An operational methodology for determining relevant DRASTIC factors and their relative weights in the assessment of aquifer vulnerability to contamination. Environmental Earth Sciences 80:7.
Crossref
Mateusz Gorzelak & Dominika Dąbrowska. (2021) Assessment of changes in the quality of ground water in the area of landfill site in Poczesna (South Poland) using the LWPI index. Environmental & Socio-economic Studies 9:1, pages 35-43.
Crossref
Licia C. Pollicino, Marco Masetti, Stefania Stevenazzi, Agata Cristaldi, Chiara Righetti & Maurizio Gorla. (2021) Multi-aquifer susceptibility analyses for supporting groundwater management in urban areas. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 238, pages 103774.
Crossref
Evangelos Tziritis, Vasilios Pisinaras, Andreas Panagopoulos & Georgios Arampatzis. (2020) RIVA: a new proposed method for assessing intrinsic groundwater vulnerability. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28:6, pages 7043-7067.
Crossref
Ziyad Abunada, Yaser Kishawi, Tamer M. Alslaibi, Naeem Kaheil & Aaron Mittelstet. (2021) The application of SWAT-GIS tool to improve the recharge factor in the DRASTIC framework: Case study. Journal of Hydrology 592, pages 125613.
Crossref
R. Kumar, F. Heße, P. S. C. Rao, A. Musolff, J. W. Jawitz, F. Sarrazin, L. Samaniego, J. H. Fleckenstein, O. Rakovec, S. Thober & S. Attinger. (2020) Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe. Nature Communications 11:1.
Crossref
Juan Carlos Zamora-Luria, Jorge Adrián Perera-Burgos, Alfredo González-Calderón, Luis E. Marin Stillman & Rosa Ma. Leal-Bautista. (2020) Control of fracture networks on a coastal karstic aquifer: a case study from northeastern Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico)Contrôle des réseaux de fractures sur un aquifère karstique côtier: une étude de cas du nord-est de la péninsule du Yucatán (Mexique)Control de redes de fracturas en un acuífero kárstico costero: caso de estudio del noreste de la península de Yucatán沿海岩溶含水层裂隙网络的控制作用:以墨西哥Yucatán半岛东北部为例Controle das redes de fraturas em um aquífero cárstico costeiro: estudo de caso no nordeste da Península de Yucatán (México). Hydrogeology Journal 28:8, pages 2765-2777.
Crossref
Bin Wang, Yanguo Teng, Huiqun Wang, Rui Zuo, Yuanzheng Zhai, Weifeng Yue & Jie Yang. (2020) Entropy weight method coupled with an improved DRASTIC model to evaluate the special vulnerability of groundwater in Songnen Plain, Northeastern China. Hydrology Research 51:5, pages 1184-1200.
Crossref
Mario A. SorianoJr.Jr., Helen G. Siegel, Kristina M. Gutchess, Cassandra J. Clark, Yunpo Li, Boya Xiong, Desiree L. Plata, Nicole C. Deziel & James E. Saiers. (2020) Evaluating Domestic Well Vulnerability to Contamination From Unconventional Oil and Gas Development Sites. Water Resources Research 56:10.
Crossref
Kaique Brito Silva & Jonatas Batista Mattos. (2020) A spatial approach for the management of groundwater quality in tourist destinations. Tourism Management 79, pages 104079.
Crossref
Mauro Pagnozzi, Gianluca Coletta, Guido Leone, Vittorio Catani, Libera Esposito & Francesco Fiorillo. (2020) A Steady-State Model to Simulate Groundwater Flow in Unconfined Aquifer. Applied Sciences 10:8, pages 2708.
Crossref
Mitra Asadollahi, Christine Stumpp, Andrea Rinaldo & Paolo Benettin. (2020) Transport and Water Age Dynamics in Soils: A Comparative Study of Spatially Integrated and Spatially Explicit Models. Water Resources Research 56:3.
Crossref
Yuxian Lai, Fei Wang, Yimei Zhang, Shuai Li, Panpan Wu, Ping Ou, Qinglu Fang, Zhuang Chen & Yaxiao Duan. (2019) Implementing chemical mass balance model and vulnerability the theories to realize the comprehensive evaluation in an abandoned battery plant. Science of The Total Environment 686, pages 788-796.
Crossref
Fuming Liu, Shuping Yi, Haiyi Ma, Junyi Huang, Yukun Tang, Jianbo Qin & Wan-huan Zhou. (2017) Risk assessment of groundwater environmental contamination: a case study of a karst site for the construction of a fossil power plant. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 26:30, pages 30561-30574.
Crossref
Matthias Sprenger, Christine Stumpp, Markus Weiler, Werner Aeschbach, Scott T. Allen, Paolo Benettin, Maren Dubbert, Andreas Hartmann, Markus Hrachowitz, James W. Kirchner, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Natalie Orlowski, Daniele Penna, Stephan Pfahl, Michael Rinderer, Nicolas Rodriguez, Maximilian Schmidt & Christiane Werner. (2019) The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone. Reviews of Geophysics 57:3, pages 800-834.
Crossref
Lia Duarte, Jorge Espinha Marques & Ana Cláudia Teodoro. (2019) An Open Source GIS-Based Application for the Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution. Environments 6:7, pages 86.
Crossref
Rajandrea Sethi & Antonio Di MolfettaRajandrea Sethi & Antonio Di Molfetta. 2019. Groundwater Engineering. Groundwater Engineering 137 159 .
Adam Szymkiewicz, Anna Gumuła-Kawęcka, Dawid Potrykus, Beata Jaworska-Szulc, Małgorzata Pruszkowska-Caceres & Wioletta Gorczewska-Langner. (2018) Estimation of Conservative Contaminant Travel Time through Vadose Zone Based on Transient and Steady Flow Approaches. Water 10:10, pages 1417.
Crossref
Deepesh Machiwal, Madan Kumar Jha, Vijay P. Singh & Chinchu Mohan. (2018) Assessment and mapping of groundwater vulnerability to pollution: Current status and challenges. Earth-Science Reviews 185, pages 901-927.
Crossref
Deepesh Machiwal, Vincent Cloutier, Cüneyt Güler & Nerantzis Kazakis. (2018) A review of GIS-integrated statistical techniques for groundwater quality evaluation and protection. Environmental Earth Sciences 77:19.
Crossref
Manuela Lasagna, Domenico Antonio De Luca & Elisa Franchino. (2018) Intrinsic groundwater vulnerability assessment: issues, comparison of different methodologies and correlation with nitrate concentrations in NW Italy. Environmental Earth Sciences 77:7.
Crossref
Daniela Ducci. (2018) An Easy-to-Use Method for Assessing Nitrate Contamination Susceptibility in Groundwater. Geofluids 2018, pages 1-12.
Crossref
Maria Filippini, Gabriela Squarzoni, Jo De Waele, Adriano Fiorucci, Bartolomeo Vigna, Barbara Grillo, Alberto Riva, Stefano Rossetti, Luca Zini, Giacomo Casagrande, Christine Stumpp & Alessandro Gargini. (2018) Differentiated spring behavior under changing hydrological conditions in an alpine karst aquifer. Journal of Hydrology 556, pages 572-584.
Crossref
Alper Elçi. (2017) Calibration of groundwater vulnerability mapping using the generalized reduced gradient method. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 207, pages 39-49.
Crossref
James A. Kingsbury, Jeannie R. B. Barlow, Bryant C. Jurgens, Peter B. McMahon & John K. Carmichael. (2017) Fraction of young water as an indicator of aquifer vulnerability along two regional flow paths in the Mississippi embayment aquifer system, southeastern USAFraction d’eau jeune comme indicateur de la vulnérabilité de l’aquifère le long de deux voies d’écoulement régional dans le système aquifère du bassin du Mississippi, dans le Sud-Est des Etats-Unis d’AmériqueFracción de agua joven como un indicador de la vulnerabilidad del acuífero a lo largo de dos trayectorias de flujo regional en el sistema de acuífero de la bahía de Mississippi, sureste de Estados Unidos美国东南部密西西比河河湾含水层系统部分年轻水作为沿两个区域水流通道含水层脆弱性的指标Fração de água jovem como um indicador da vulnerabilidade de aquíferos ao longo de dois padrões de fluxo regionais no sistema aquífero do embasamento do Mississippi, sudeste dos EUA. Hydrogeology Journal 25:6, pages 1661-1678.
Crossref
Anker Lajer Højberg, Anne Lausten Hansen, Przemysław Wachniew, Anna J. Żurek, Seija Virtanen, Jurga Arustiene, Johan Strömqvist, Katri Rankinen & Jens Christian Refsgaard. (2017) Review and assessment of nitrate reduction in groundwater in the Baltic Sea Basin. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 12, pages 50-68.
Crossref
Veronika Iván & Judit Mádl-Szőnyi. (2017) State of the art of karst vulnerability assessment: overview, evaluation and outlook. Environmental Earth Sciences 76:3.
Crossref
Mercedes Arauzo. (2017) Vulnerability of groundwater resources to nitrate pollution: A simple and effective procedure for delimiting Nitrate Vulnerable Zones. Science of The Total Environment 575, pages 799-812.
Crossref
J.-R. de Dreuzy & T.R. Ginn. (2016) Residence times in subsurface hydrological systems, introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Hydrology 543, pages 1-6.
Crossref
Christine Stumpp, Anna J. Żurek, Przemysław Wachniew, Alessandro Gargini, Alexandra Gemitzi, Maria Filippini & Stanisław Witczak. (2016) A decision tree tool supporting the assessment of groundwater vulnerability. Environmental Earth Sciences 75:13.
Crossref
M. Bonfanti, D. Ducci, M. Masetti, M. Sellerino & S. Stevenazzi. (2016) Using statistical analyses for improving rating methods for groundwater vulnerability in contamination maps. Environmental Earth Sciences 75:12.
Crossref
Tesfaye Tessema TT Gintamo, Haile Mengistu, Yongxin Xu & Thokozani Kanyerere. (2022) Using GIS-Based Modified DRASTIC Modelling of the Cape Flats Aquifer to Assess Coastal Aquifer Vulnerability in Urban Hydrogeology, South Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.