Tidal Effects on Estuarine Water Quality

Tidal Effects on Estuarine Water Quality

A case study in Vembar estuary, Southeast coast of Tamil Nadu, India

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This book provides an insight on the effect of tides on estuarine water quality through a sandy beach. Estuaries are very important in the sense of their fertile waters, sheltered anchorages and the navigational access they provide to a broad hinterland. The effect of tidal ingress into the estuarine channels results in serious saline water intrusion problems in the nearby freshwater aquifers. Thus, drinking water becomes saline due to this natural phenomenon. Moreover, the impact of groundwater exploitation nearby estuarine zones also increases the threat of seawater coning, which eventually ...