Excessive Water Usage, and Its Impact on Underground Water Depletion in Jalalabad City Zone

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Published Feb 10, 2024
https://doi.org/10.70436/nuijb.v3i02.228
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2024: ICCC (Special Issue)

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Mohammad Ismail Fazly

Abstract

I have conducted a research study on the Underground Water Depletion (UGWD) over Excessive Water Usage in Nangarhar City Zone. Groundwater Depletion (GW) is a pressing concern in Afghanistan as well as in other countries around the world. However, in some places such as Kabul, water depletion rate is much more than its In-charge rate, which is already a serious concern. In this paper the data have been analyzed with the help of a theoretical framework. The data have been collected through normal dialog (Interview), and questionnaires distributed to the related entities including in sample frames in Nangarhar City-Zone. This research type was quantitative, and due to the large size of population, I have opted for the random sampling, and estimation method. In this research study, I have found that there is a Positive relationship between GW & In-charge rate, and Negative relationship with Discharge rate. The specific result for this research study is theoretical framework analysis. With the help of decision science tools, we examined that, due to percent change in In-charge rate upon percentage change in GW is positively changing the Groundwater in Nangarhar city zone case. Yearly based, the Groundwater Depletion Rate is 0.75 and the amount of water collectively decreased by 19.195%. The significant rate depends upon my theoretical framework, which can show reliability of our conducted research work.

Keywords

Underground, Water, Sinkage, Environmental, Pollution

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Fazly , M. I. (2024). Excessive Water Usage, and Its Impact on Underground Water Depletion in Jalalabad City Zone. Nangarhar University International Journal of Biosciences, 3(02), 323–326. https://doi.org/10.70436/nuijb.v3i02.228

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