Jwan S. Mustafa

Salahaddin University/ College of Engineering · Civil Engineering

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the sewage system in the city of Erbil, Iraq, focusing on the wastewater’s quality, quantity, and the environmental impact of untreated wastewater disposal. The city does not have a centralized wastewater treatment plant, although a design has already been approved. The study evaluates the current s...

This study presents the development of a comprehensive three-dimensional groundwater flow model for the Erbil Basin utilizing the Groundwater Modeling System (GMS). The Erbil Basin, situated in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, is a vital water resource area facing increasing water demands and environmental challenges. The three-dimensional nature of t...

The identification and delineation of recharge zones are critical components in sustainable groundwater management. This study focuses on determining the recharge zones within the Erbil Basin, employing a combination of field investigations, hydrogeological assessments, and geospatial analyses using Groundwater Modeling system (GMS) software with t...

p>This research is conducted on Erbil basin, it is located in northern part of Iraq, the basin is composed of three main sub-basins which are: Northern part (Kapran), Central sub-basin and Southern part (Bashtepa) respectively. The total area of three sub-basins are approximately (3,200 km2). The main sources of aquifer recharge in the study area i...

This study addresses the pressing issues of groundwater depletion and drought problems in the Erbil basin, a vital resource region in the Middle East. Focused on an area of strategic importance due to its large size and critical water resources, the study employs the Groundwater Modeling System (GMS) software to create a detailed 3D hydrogeological...

Groundwater stands as a crucial lifeline in numerous regions across the globe, a significance magnified in water-scarce locales like the Middle East. With depleting water resources exacerbated by global climate change, the imperative for sustainable groundwater management becomes increasingly urgent. This research employs a groundwater flow modelin...

Erbil Basin is one of the most important groundwater resources in the Middle East, it is located between both Greater Zab and Lesser Zab Rivers. Due to the importance of the basin locations and its major source for water supply, various researchers studied the hydrological, hydrogeological characteristics of the Erbil basin. It also divided into th...

This study conducted on the selected five school buildings to evaluate the Environmental impact and sustainability. School sector is one of the buildings that impacted by several factors such as; Globalization, climate change, technology. Consequently, this research investigated construction materials, environmental conditions and management of the...

Groundwater recharge is the most important element in water planning and management in Erbil basin. The rapid grow in population and development causes to increase their requirement to water demand and consumption. The most important steps in aquifer system is accurate estimation of groundwater recharge. There are many approaches to estimate the re...

Climate change, industrialization, global warming, dust storms, etc. influence rainfall, and rainwater quality. The current research aimed to examine rainwater quality parameters in Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Additionally, the evaluation of rainwater quality for various uses and mapping using a Geographic Information System (GIS) were...

Climate change, industrialization, global warming, dust storms, etc. influence rainfall, and rainwater quality. The current research aimed to examine rainwater quality parameters in Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Additionally, the evaluation of rainwater quality for various uses and mapping using a Geographic Information System (GIS) were...

Erbil Basin is selected as study area, which is located in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, several production wells have been selected for monthly monitoring of groundwater levels. The continuous depletion of groundwater levels has been recorded due to uncontrolled exploitation from both legal and illegal wells, that poses a major problem in the selected...

Conserving water and the providing for the future generation is one of the most important principal agenda in sustainable development goals. The paper aims to evaluate the sustainability of the quantity and quality of water sources for Erbil City and keep safe and secure based on the comparison with the standard limitations. Therefore, on this basi...

The research presented an overview on sludge types, characteristics and methods of treatment. Additionally, using the sludge as an energy sources for future plans was studied as well. The paper focused mainly on analyzing different sludge characteristics based on the previous studies. Wastewater sludge produced from the primary, secondary and terti...

Water resources management is closely linked to the concept of river basin characteristics. Basin is a dynamic and very complex system which has mainly two types of characteristics; geographic and hydrologic. In this study, the characteristics of the Greater Zab River Basin were determined by employing Geographic Information System (GIS). GIS techn...

The issue of rationalizing water consumption and preserving it for future generations is one of the most important indicators of sustainable development referred to in the Agenda 21. This study aims to assess the sustainability of water resources for the city of Erbil in terms of quantity and quality. In this study, the amount of water available in...

The study presented a method for estimating aquifer storage coefficient form recovery test data meanwhile, it is hard to determine especially for single well test cases. The method involves an equation based on the principle of Jacob's modified Theis equation by measuring residual drawdown data versus recovery time in the production well. The main...

This work presented the design steps and calculation for each unit of the water treatment plant (WTP), due to its crucial role domestically and drinking purpose. It also illustrated and designed the procedures of the water processing units by estimating water demand and designing the unit process. The objectives of this work were to evaluate the wa...

Over the past decades, drilling wells and groundwater extraction for agricultural, domestic, and industrial purposes is growing at a high rate in Kurdistan Region-Iraq, meaning that groundwater becomes one primary water source. Increased demand for water and over-exploitation and unsustainable practices severely deteriorate groundwater. Therefore,...

This work presented the design steps and calculation for each units of the water treatment plant (WTP), due to it’s important role domestically and drinking purpose. It also illustrated and designed the procedures of the water processing units by estimating water demand and designing the unit process. The objectives of this work were to estimate th...

Pumping and slug tests data of six new drilled wells (well-2 Chalug, well-21, well-12, well-6, well-14, well-2) in Kawrgosk sub-district were analyzed, and the results compared with five (well-3, well -Shokur, well-4, well-10, well-1) selected previous tested wells. The field data were selected on the basis of applicability, reliability, aquifer ty...

This paper presented composting process of the organic wastes, which are easily biodegradable. These organic wastes are generated from many sources compiles; municipal solid waste (MSW), food, markets, kitchens and agricultural wastes. Due to improper MSW management, it causes many environmental problems. The methods to be used include reducing the...

This work was aimed to study municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal problems and energy income from it. Open dumpsite and only buried of MSW causes risks to the people and the environment. Burring mixed MSW (without separation, leachate and gas collection) at Erbil Landfill Site (ELS) leads to leftover income and energy. Recyclable materials such as...

The analysis of step-drawdown test data enables to determine the total drawdown in the pumped well, to evaluate the performance of the well. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to introduce a method (Jacob, 1947) to calculate the linear, and non-linear components of the well loss. The proposed method applied on a well tapped in confined...

The specific capacity of the well is often obtained by dividing pumping rate (Q) over the drawdown in the pumping well (∆s). A simple equation is derived for well located near to the stream, and the derivation starts through Cooper-Jacob (1946) method. The aim of this paper is to describe the new equation which can be applicable for any wells locat...

Pumping test of a water table aquifer is carried out to estimate the aquifer parameters, the obtained data were analysed through the solution of both Neuman (1975) and Jacob (1946) methods through AQTESOLV and Spreadsheet programs, the results of each methods are compared to evaluate the applicability and accuracy of the solution theoretically and...

Single well test is more common than aquifer test with having observation well, since the advantage of single well test is that the pumping test can be conducted on the production well with the absence of observation well. A kind of single well test, which is step-drawdown test used to determine the efficiency and specific capacity of the well, how...