| Development stages of the Erbil Basin are poorly understood and the sustainable use of groundwater in the basin is uncertain. This study characterizes water sustainability and its significance through demonstrating the overexploitation and deficit rates of the groundwater supply, whereby describing hydrologic conditions of the basin. Various data sets like climate, soil, well measurements, and geology of the aquifers are compiled to understand current and future conditions of the basin. The lithology, geometry, water level, and thickening and thinning, of the two main aquifer systems are described across the basin. The natural groundwater flow, groundwater level oscillations, and nature of hydrologic units for the basin are determined by using subsurface mapping and cross sections. |
