Scientific approaches

• Monitoring and assessment: Managing groundwater salinity is about making informed decisions. It is of paramount importance to know the extent and severity of the groundwater salinity in order take appropriate actions. For this, one needs to monitor and measure the groundwater salinity. Monitoring of groundwater salinity by measuring the electric conductivity and/or TDS content is the standard practice.
• Modelling: To analyze the salinity genetics and dynamics and to estimate effects of interventions in the groundwater systems and land use on groundwater salinity, flow and solutes transport numerical models are used. Various computer codes and types of software exist that can perform these simulations, analyses and data visualization like MT3D, MOCDENSE, SEAWATER, Feflow.

Modelled groundwater concentrations in part of the Netherlands