% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @PHDTHESIS{Saadeh:50005, author = {Saadeh, Mark}, othercontributors = {Azzam, Rafig}, title = {{I}nfluence of overexploitation and seawater intrusion on the quality of groundwater in {G}reater {B}eirut}, address = {Aachen}, publisher = {Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University}, reportid = {RWTH-CONV-112570}, pages = {XIV, 160 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.}, year = {2008}, note = {Zusammenfassung in engl. und dt. Sprache; Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2008}, abstract = {The phenomena of seawater intrusion is the most prominent process that degrades the quality of groundwater along coastal aquifers. In Lebanon, it has already increased the salinity of groundwater to such concentrations that it has very little use domestically, industrially or agriculturally. With a total population of nearly 5 million, a third live in Greater Beirut and its suburbs, thus placing a tremendous stress on the limited amount of supplied freshwater, the consequence is groundwater overabstraction leading to the hydraulic gradient to reverse and encourage seawater encroachment. As such, this investigation was undertaken in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and its suburbs between 2004 and 2006, in order to asses the degree of seawater intrusion. With groundwater samples exhibiting salinities in the thousands of milligrams per liter in some areas, this significant and potential irreversible deterioration of the quality of groundwater in Greater Beirut may potentially lead to an inevitable conclusion, namely searching for an alternate source of freshwater other than groudwater abstraction.}, keywords = {Grundwasser (SWD) / Meerwassereindringen (SWD)}, cin = {532110 / 530000}, ddc = {550}, cid = {$I:(DE-82)532110_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)530000_20140620$}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11}, urn = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-22050}, url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/50005}, }