Asia Area: 44 M km2 Population >4 B Countries: 48 Groundwater resources investigation have been taken in most countries.
Groundwater resources assessments provide basis data and information over large area. As the level of groundwater abstractions increases, negative consequences have come manifest.
There are several Transboundary aquifers, involving two or more countries in Asia. The inventory of Transboundary aquifers will form a basis to improve scientific knowledge and to develop a toolkit for groundwater governance. The updated map will provide missed Transboundary aquifers in Asia. Those TBAs information will responsibility, participation, information availability, transparency and custom for the political leaders, policy makers and planners.
Transboundary aquifers in Asia are based on groundwater systems analysis.
11 groundwater systems and 36 subsystems
Tableland & plateau cold temperate zone Temp. semi-humid upland and plain of northeastern Asia North China Plain and temperate semi-arid area of Loess Plain Temp. arid area of inland basin & hilly area Tropic arid, semi-humid area of Iran Plateau-Asia Minor Peninsula Tropic arid area Arabian Peninsula- Mesopotamian plain Frigid zone of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Tropic humid-semi humid zone of India River- Ganges River Plain-Deccan Plateau Tropic humid upland Indo-China Peninsula Subtropics humid hilly area of South China Equatorial humid islands southeastern Asia
We have collected the essential and the missed Transboundary aquifers data. On the update Inventory, 67 Transboundary Aquifers are inventoried. The TBA aquifers in Asia have been classified into two grades: regional and local grade. The regional TBA extension is more than 3000 km2. The Local TBA extension is less than 3000 km2.
Regional 49
Local 18
Southeast Asia 8 East Asia 25 5 Central Asia & Caucasus 6 13 West Asia 4 South Asia 6
Southeast Asia
Name of TBA Countries Type Extension Northern Kalimantan Brunei , Malaysia 1 6246 Downstream of Lancang River China, Myanmar 2,3 39509
Hong River basin China, Vietnam 1,2,3 60805 The mid of Mekong River
V i e t n a m , L a o s , Thailand 1,2,3 106816
Kele plateau Laos, Thailand 1,2 90837
Mekong River delta Cambodia, Vietnam 1,2 223422
South Burma Myanmar, Thailand 1,2,3 33715 The Up of Mekong River
Myanmar, Thailand, Laos 1,2,3 31841
East Asia
Countries Type Extension
Central A
sia and Caucasus
Name Countries Type Extension
West A
sia
Name of TBA Countries Type Extension
Paleogene an C r e t a c e o u s aquifer
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, I raq, Jordan, Syria
1,2,3 2135251
E a s t e r n Mediterranean
Israel, Jordan, L e b a n o n , P a l e s t i n e Territory, Syria,
1,2,3 15000
Upper Jezira Turkey, Syria, Iraq 1 100000
Hauran and Al-Arab
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, 2 48000
South Asia
Name of TBA Countries Type Extension Mid of
Brahmaputra River
India, China 1,2 35905
Southern of Himalaya mountains
India, Bhutan
1,2 29717
Ganges River plain
India, Bangladesh
1 180384
Southern of Himalayas
India, Nepal 1,2 311589
India River plain India, Pakistan
1 394625
Kabul River Aquifer
Pakistan, Afghanistan
1,2 6219
Type : 1 - porous, 2 - fissured/fractured, 3 - karst