Evaluation of groundwater quality in northern Saudi Arabia using multivariate analysis and stochastic statistics

Groundwater resources available in the Paleozoic sedimentary formations form the most prolific source of water supply in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the absence of surface water supplies the available groundwater reserves in these aquifers have been used extensively to fulfill the agricultural and domestic water demands. The main purpose of this paper was to evaluate the groundwater quality in the Northern Western part of Saudi Arabia using...