Safety evaluation study on groundwater for drinking in Yinchuan Plain

Author

Jing, Xiuyan ; Zhang, Fu-cun ; Wang, Wen-ke ; Yang, Zeyuan ; Cao, Yuqing

Author_Institution

Coll. of Geol. & Environ. Eng., Xi´an Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Xi´an, China

Volume

1

fYear

2011

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

361

Abstract

Due to exposed to serious pollution and influence of natural conditions, drinking water safety has become a hotspot issue drawing high attention from the state and government. Yinchuang Plain is in serious quality-induced water shortage. Through investigation and analysis, this paper established a drinking water safety evaluation system from the perspective of headwaters and human health, studying quality and quantity of groundwater, as well as geological protective performance; safety evaluation on groundwater exploration for drinking in Yinchuan Plain was conducted by adopting analytic hierarchy process and overlay and index methods with the help of GIS software platform. The evaluation result has practical significance for groundwater resource protection and groundwater safety supply.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysics computing; groundwater; health hazards; hydrological techniques; water conservation; water quality; water resources; China; GIS software platform; Yinchuang Plain; analytic hierarchy process; drinking water safety evaluation system; geological protective performance; groundwater exploration; groundwater resource protection; groundwater safety supply; headwaters; human health; index system evaluation; quality-induced water shortage; Geology; Humans; Indexes; Safety; Solids; Water pollution; Water resources; Drinking Water Safety; Index System Evaluation; Yinchuan Plain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Water Resource and Environmental Protection (ISWREP), 2011 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-339-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWREP.2011.5893018

Filename

5893018