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Groundwater salinization and vulnerability of coastal resources to climate change: Coastal plain of Saïdia, Morocco Volume 20, issue 2, avril-mai-juin 2009

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UFR, développement des géosciences appliquées aux ressources en eaux, laboratoire de géologie appliquée, hydrogéologie et environnement Faculté des sciences BP 524 Oujda Maroc, Département de biologie et agroalimentaire Faculté des sciences et techniques Settat Maroc

Pollution constitutes a permanent risk of ground water resource limitation. Increasing urbanization and economic development contribute to quantitative and qualitative ground water deterioration. The protection and the preservation of these resources are top priority necessities, particularly in arid zones where ground water constitutes the main hydraulic source. Hence, the cartography of environmental vulnerability to pollution of aquifers was considered as an efficient tool to limit and control quality degradation risks of these waters. The Geographical Information Systems represent the best method to solve the main problems in the vulnerability survey. Indeed, they facilitate the superposition of maps from different sources and the interpolation of punctual data. This methodology is applied to the water table of Saidia. The constructed map of vulnerability shows five classes of vulnerability: very weak, weak, average, elevated and highly elevated.