K. M. Hadi

• Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

In the water-starved arid climate of Kuwait, useable (both fresh and brackish) reserves of groundwater constitute a strategic resource. Therefore, effective management policies are essential for ensuring sustainable management of the groundwater resources in the state. Although the general pattern of groundwater flow is known, the detailed pattern...

The Kuwait Group aquifer is a major source of brackish groundwater in the State of Kuwait. The aquifer ranges in thickness from 150–400 m. In the Umm Gudair well field, the water has total dissolved solids ranging from 3,130 to 4,790 mg/l. According to the Sulin classification, all the Kuwait Group aquifer samples are characterized as Cl–Mg or Cl–C...

The study area, Umm Gudair is one of the water well fields of Kuwait, which supplies brackish groundwater. The groundwater resources are mainly derived from two aquifers. These are the upper, leaky clastic Kuwait Group aquifer, and the lower, confined to semi-confined carbonate Dammam limestone aquifer. In this study, the stratigraphy, petrology, g...

Umm Gudair field comprises the most potential brackish groundwater reservoir in Kuwait. The field is located in the southwest corner of Kuwait near the Kuwait Saudi Arabia border. It occupies an area of 450km2. The brackish groundwater is abstracted from two main aquifers, the Dammam Limestone and the overlying Kuwait Group. The Dammam aquifer exte...

The Umm Gudair well field in Kuwait supplies brackish groundwater at a peak rate of 1.14 × 105 m3/d from 41 dual completed production wells. Each well can be operated continuously at a capacity of 2,620 to 3,110 m3/d. The produced water is expected to be a mixture of the pumped Kuwait Group and Dammam Limestone aquifers. Thus, the quality of the pu...

The Eocene Dammam carbonate aquifer in Kuwait is part of the most extensive limestone aquifer in the Arabian Gulf States. The principal artesian aquifer consists chiefly of 175-275 m thick, soft, porous chalky limestone and hard crystalline dolomitic limestone. The purpose of this paper is to describe the hydrochemistry of the groundwater and to id...

A laboratory investigation of the compatibility of the Kuwait Group aquifer of Kuwait with desalinated seawater and reverse osmosis processed treated wastewater was carried out in anticipation of the artificial recharge of the aquifer in future. Even with the use of wax coating and freezing with liquid nitrogen, no core plugs could be extracted fro...

Water samples from a total of 42 wells, producing from the carbonate Dammam Formation (Eocene) and the clastic Kuwait Group (Mio-Pleistocene) aquifers in Kuwait were collected and analyzed for the determination of selected trace elements and compounds. The purpose was to establish preliminary baselines for these constituents in the ground water of...

In this study the suitability of brackish ground water quality for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination is evaluated. The results of initial laboratory and field analysis of 41 production wells were used to determine the hydrochemical properties of groundwater for both the Dammam limestone aquifer and the clastic Kuwait Group aquifer in the southweste...

Kuwait is an arid country marked by scarce rainfall, high temperatures and evaporation rates, and lack of perennial surface waters. The only natural water resources of Kuwait is groundwater which is in either brackish or saline except in two locations. At Raudhalain and Umm Al-Aish areas the groundwater exist as fresh lenses due to high infiltratio...

In the arid environment of Kuwait where there is no surface water, usable groundwater resource is limited, and the country mainly depends on the seawater desalination for its freshwater need, judicious management of the available groundwater resource is imperative for the well-being of the country. It is important to recognize in this context that...