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Groundwater flow modeling in the Zhangye Basin, Northwestern China

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The Zhangye basin is in the middle reaches of the Heihe River, northwestern China. Heavy abstraction of groundwater since the 1970s in the area is for agricultural, industrial and drinking water supplies and has led to a substantial decline in the potentiometric surface. A three-dimensional regional numerical groundwater flow model, calibrated under transient conditions, has been developed and used to predict the drawdown for the period from 2000 to 2030 under two different groundwater management scenarios.

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This work was supported by the Postdoctor Science Foundation of China (20060390632), National Science Foundation of China (10572090). The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their reading of the manuscript, and for their suggestions and critical comments.

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    X. H. Wen, Y. Q. Wu, L. J. E. Lee, J. P. Su & J. Wu

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Wen, X.H., Wu, Y.Q., Lee, L.J.E. et al. Groundwater flow modeling in the Zhangye Basin, Northwestern China. Environ Geol 53, 77–84 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-006-0620-7

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