Managed aquifer recharge with reverse-osmosis desalinated seawater: modeling the spreading in groundwater using stable water isotopes

Ganot, Yonatan; Holtzman, Ran; Weisbrod, Noam; Bernstein, Anat; Siebner, Hagar; Katz, Yoram; Kurtzman, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6323-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6323-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6323-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 12

Research article

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06 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 06 Dec 2018

Managed aquifer recharge with reverse-osmosis desalinated seawater: modeling the spreading in groundwater using stable water isotopes

Yonatan Ganot, Ran Holtzman, Noam Weisbrod, Anat Bernstein, Hagar Siebner, Yoram Katz, and Daniel Kurtzman

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RC1: 'Review', Alex Furman, 11 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Alex Furman (reviewer 1)', Yonatan Ganot, 12 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Comments to HESS-2018-341', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Yonatan Ganot, 19 Oct 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (14 Nov 2018) by Bill X. Hu

AR by Yonatan Ganot on behalf of the Authors (22 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 Nov 2018) by Bill X. Hu

AR by Yonatan Ganot on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2018)

Short summary

In recent years, surpluses of desalinated seawater (DSW) are stored in the Israeli coastal aquifer. We monitor DSW spread in the aquifer using the difference between isotope composition of reverse-osmosis DSW and natural fresh water, which simplifies the system to two distinct end-members. A hydrogeological flow and transport model is used to demonstrate the robustness of this simplification, predict the future spread of DSW in the aquifer and mixing in wells, and estimate DSW recovery efficacy.