Predicting discharge potential of upper Thal Doab, Indus basin for irrigation through numerical groundwater flow modeling

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Hanif Rehman ¹ , Zulfiqar Ahmad ² , Arshad Ashraf ³

1 - Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
2 - University of Wah, Pakistan
3 - National Agriculture Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan

Received: 2018-04-27 Accepted : 2018-09-15 Published : 2018-10-01

Keywords: Groundwater Modeling, Irrigated Agriculture, Thal Doab, Indus Aquifer,

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