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Management zones in transboundary aquifers: A review of delineation methods under a new framework of cross-border groundwater impacts

Maass Morales, C.E. (author), Stigter, Tibor (author), Fraser, Christina (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Jewitt, G.P.W. (author)

Attention on the use of transboundary aquifers (TBAs) and their cross-border impacts is growing as countries become increasingly concerned about their long-term water security. Cross-border impacts, in groundwater quality and quantity, tend to concentrate in specific parts of TBAs, as they largely depend on the transboundary flow dynamics...

review 2024

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Reactive Transport Modeling for Exploring the Potential of Water Quality Sensors to Estimate Hydrocarbon Levels in Groundwater

Wu, C.L. (author), Wagterveld, R. M. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Petroleum products have contaminated groundwater with harmful organic compounds, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX). Collecting and analyzing polluted groundwater samples is expensive and undertaken infrequently. However, quick remedial action in case of unexpected events requires continuous monitoring. In-situ water...

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Using continuous electrical conductivity measurements to derive major solute concentrations in karst systems

Richieri, Beatrice (author), Bittner, Daniel (author), Hartmann, Andreas (author), Benettin, Paolo (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Labat, David (author), Chiogna, Gabriele (author)

Hydrochemical data of karst springs provide valuable insights into the internal hydrodynamical functioning of karst systems and support model structure identification. However, the collection of high-frequency time series of major solute species is limited by analysis costs. In this study, we develop a method to retrieve the individual solute...

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QMRA of Ralstonia solanacearum in potato cultivation: Risks associated with irrigation water recycled through managed aquifer recharge

Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Velstra, Jouke (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author)

Agricultural aquifer storage recovery and transfer (ASTR) stores excess fresh water for later reuse in irrigation. Moreover, water quality improves because chemical pollutants and pathogens will be removed by degradation and attachment to the aquifer material. The source water may contain the bacterial plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum...

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Prevention of well clogging during aquifer storage of turbid tile drainage water rich in dissolved organic carbon and nutrients

Kruisdijk, E. (author), Ros, Julian F. (author), Ghosh, D. (author), Brehme, M. (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Well clogging was studied at an aquifer storage transfer and recovery (ASTR) site used to secure freshwater supply for a flower bulb farm. Tile drainage water (TDW) was collected from a 10-ha parcel, stored in a sandy brackish coastal aquifer via well injection in wet periods, and reused during dry periods. This ASTR application has been...

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Dose-response relationship of Ralstonia solanacearum and potato in greenhouse and in vitro experiments

Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), Kastelein, Pieter (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Velstra, Jouke (author), Teunis, Peter F. M. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author)

Ralstonia solanacearum is the causative agent of bacterial wilt of potato and other vegetable crops. Contaminated irrigation water contributes to the dissemination of this pathogen but the exact concentration or biological threshold to cause an infection is unknown. In two greenhouse experiments, potted potato plants (Solanum tuberosum) were...

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Editorial: Frontiers in water: Rising stars 2021

Ganguly, Auroop R. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Evers, Mariele (author), Hendricks Franssen, Harrie Jan (author), Illangasekare, Tissa (author), Kumar, Praveen (author), Steefel, Carl (author), Taylor, Richard G. (author)

contribution to periodical 2022

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Monitoring and inverse modelling of hydrogeochemical processes during managed aquifer recharge in Southwestern Bangladesh

Rafiq, M.R. (author), Ahmed, Kazi Matin (author), Rietveld, L.C. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) has been applied as Aquifer Storage, Transfer, and Recovery (ASTR) to provide fresh drinking water for local communities at 99 locations in southwest Bangladesh since 2009. Aerobic freshwater from ponds is filtered and subsequently infiltrated into anaerobic shallow brackish aquifers. At approximately 45% of...

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Combining Water Resources, Socioenvironmental, and Psychological Factors in Assessing Willingness to Conserve Groundwater in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Klessens, Tycho M.A. (author), Daniel, D. (author), Jiang, Yong (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Scholten, L. (author), Pande, S. (author)

Freshwater resources in coastal areas are under intense pressure from excessive groundwater extraction, which amplifies saltwater intrusion (SWI) into coastal freshwater aquifers, such as in the Mekong Delta. Studies that combine socioenvironmental data and households' psychological factors next to salinity measurement data to design...

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Intra aquifer variations in pesticide sorption during a field injection experiment

Kruisdijk, E. (author), Zietzschmann, F.E. (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

A field injection experiment was performed in an anoxic sandy aquifer over 6 days to assess sorption characteristics of 7 commonly applied pesticides in agriculture and 2 frequently detected metabolites. Pesticide use changed considerably in the last decades, and there is insufficient knowledge of the fate of currently used pesticides in...

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Degradation of seven pesticides and two metabolites before and during aquifer storage transfer and recovery operation

Kruisdijk, E. (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Degradation of 7 common pesticides (bentazon, boscalid, chloridazon, fluopyram, flutolanil, imidacloprid, and methoxyfenozide) and 2 metabolites of chloridazon (desphenyl-chloridazon, and methyl-desphenyl-chloridazon) was studied in an anoxic and brackish sandy aquifer before and during Aquifer Storage Transfer and Recovery (ASTR) operation....

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Removal of bacterial plant pathogens in columns filled with quartz and natural sediments under anoxic and oxygenated conditions

Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Kruisdijk, E. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Irrigation with surface water carrying plant pathogens poses a risk for agriculture. Managed aquifer recharge enhances fresh water availability while simultaneously it may reduce the risk of plant diseases by removal of pathogens during aquifer passage. We compared the transport of three plant pathogenic bacteria with Escherichia coli WR1 as...

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Denitrification kinetics during aquifer storage and recovery of drainage water from agricultural land

Kruisdijk, E. (author), Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Stuyfzand, Pieter Jan (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

An aquifer storage transfer and recovery (ASTR) system was studied in which tile drainage water (TDW) was injected with relatively high NO₃ (about 14 mg/L) concentrations originating from fertilizers. Here we present the evolution of denitrification kinetics at 6 different depths in the aquifer before, and during ASTR operation....

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Analysis of water quality time series for improving the measurement strategy in the Brantas basin, Indonesia

Willard, T.S. (author), Pramana, K.E.R. (author), Pande, S. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author)

abstract 2021

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Reactive transport modelling of push-pull tests: A versatile approach to quantify aquifer reactivity

Kruisdijk, E. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Push-pull tests (PPTs) were evaluated with 1-D radially axisymmetric multi-component geochemical reactive transport modelling (RTM) to assess aquifer reactivity controlling groundwater quality. Nutrient fate and redox processes were investigated in an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) system, in which oxic tile drainage water (TDW; nitrate ...

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Drivers of nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in a groundwater-fed urban catchment revealed by high-frequency monitoring

Yu, Liang (author), Rozemeijer, Joachim C. (author), Peter Broers, Hans (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Middelburg, Jack J. (author), Ouboter, Maarten (author), Van Der Velde, Ype (author)

Eutrophication of water bodies has been a problem causing severe degradation of water quality in cities. To gain mechanistic understanding of the temporal dynamics of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in a groundwater-fed lowlying urban polder, we applied high-frequency monitoring in Geuzenveld, a polder in the city of Amsterdam. The...

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Die-off of plant pathogenic bacteria in tile drainage and anoxic water from a managed aquifer recharge site

Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Velstra, Jouke (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author)

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) can provide irrigation water and overcome water scarcity in agriculture. Removal of potentially present plant pathogens during MAR is essential to prevent crop diseases. We studied the die-off of three plant pathogenic bacteria in water microcosms with natural or filtered tile drainage water (TDW) at 10 and 25◦C...

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Microbially mediated kinetic sulfur isotope fractionation: reactive transport modeling benchmark

Cheng, Yiwei (author), Arora, Bhavna (author), Şengör, S. Sevinç (author), Druhan, Jennifer L. (author), Wanner, Christoph (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Steefel, Carl I. (author)

Microbially mediated sulfate reduction is a ubiquitous process in many subsurface systems. Isotopic fractionation is characteristic of this anaerobic process, since sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) favor the reduction of the lighter sulfate isotopologue (S³²O₄²⁻) over the heavier isotopologue (S³⁴O...

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Virtual experiments to assess opportunities and pitfalls of CSIA in physical-chemical heterogeneous aquifers

Thouement, H.A.A. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)

Degradation of chlorinated ethenes (CEs) in low conductivity layers of aquifers reduces pollution plume tailing and accelerates natural attenuation timeframes. The degradation pathways involved are often different from those in the higher conductive layers and might go undetected when only highly conductive layers are targeted in site...

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Potential for managed aquifer recharge in southwestern Bangladesh based on social necessity and technical suitability

Naus, Floris Loys (author), Schot, Paul (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Ahmed, Kazi Matin (author), Griffioen, Jasper (author)

In southwestern Bangladesh, clean drinking water is scarce, since rainwater is only available during the monsoon, pond water is often bacteriologically polluted, and groundwater may exhibit high salinity and arsenic levels. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) might potentially provide safe drinking water by storing abundant freshwater from the wet...

journal article 2020