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Soil Sealing and Depletion of Groundwater in Rapidly Growing Peshawar City District, Pakistan

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The aim of this chapter is to explore the trend of soil sealing and its impact on water infiltration and loss of groundwater potential in Peshawar City District, Pakistan. The impacts of soil sealing on groundwater are a challenging research area, and this research will help in exploring the relationship between soil sealing by rapid urban growth and expansion and the resultant depletion of groundwater sources. In the study area, rapid population growth and urban expansion have engulfed agricultural land and the subsequent infrastructural development has caused soil sealing. Such human interventions have produced problems with rise in urban temperature, accelerated surface runoff, reduced fertile farmland, and largely halted percolation and infiltration. The direct and indirect impacts of soil sealing on human life and environs have also been highlighted in this chapter. This study is based on both primary and secondary data sources. Data pertaining to urban expansion has been acquired from the published sources as well as temporal Spot images of the past three decades. Similarly, soil sealing and its trend prediction for the year 2030 were calculated. Groundwater data for the entire district has been collected from Public Health Engineering Department, Peshawar. Field survey was conducted to explore the current status of water table and depleting groundwater sources. Population data has been compiled from district census reports and statistical profiles. The analysis reveals that rapid population growth has increased the abstraction of groundwater and the potential of these freshwater sources has been threatened.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Atta-ur Rahman, Noorul Haq &  Samiullah

  2. Department of Geography, Government College Lund Khwar, Mardan, Pakistan

    Attaullah Khan

  3. Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan

    Rajib Shaw

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Rahman, Au., Khan, A., Haq, N., Samiullah, Shaw, R. (2019). Soil Sealing and Depletion of Groundwater in Rapidly Growing Peshawar City District, Pakistan. In: Ray, B., Shaw, R. (eds) Urban Drought. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8947-3_17

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