DOI : https://doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.6.5.999

Assessment of Natural Groundwater Recharge in Terengganu, Malaysia

Musa Garba Abdullahi (1), Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin (2), Mohd Ekhwan Toriman (3), Muhammad Barzani Gasim (4), Azizah Endut (5), Iliyasu Garba (6)
(1) East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300 Terengganu, Malaysia
(2) East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300 Terengganu, Malaysia
(3) School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
(4) East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300 Terengganu, Malaysia
(5) East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300 Terengganu, Malaysia
(6) Department of Geology, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano, Nigeria
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Abdullahi, Musa Garba, et al. “Assessment of Natural Groundwater Recharge in Terengganu, Malaysia”. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, vol. 6, no. 5, Oct. 2016, pp. 781-6, doi:10.18517/ijaseit.6.5.999.
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Estimation of groundwater recharge is essential for efficient groundwater resources management, for domestic uses and irrigation purposes in the study area. The present research entails the assessment of natural groundwater recharge in Terengganu Malaysia. Estimation of recharge by whatever method is usually subjected to a large uncertaintyand errors. However, this research attempt to derive an empirical relationship to determine the groundwater recharge from rainfall based on seasonal groundwater balance studies using the data obtained from 2000-2001 to 2011-2012. This empirical relationship similar to Chaturvedi formula was derived by fitting the estimated values of rainfall recharge, and the corresponding values of rainfall in the monsoon season through the non-linear regression techniques. The result shows that the proportion of variance explained was found to be 89.52 %, the recharge of groundwater commences at P = 15.28 inches and the relative errors was found to range from 3.680 to 46.020%.

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