water Article Assessment of Complex Terminal Groundwater Aquifer for Different Use of Oued Souf Valley (Algeria) Using Multivariate Statistical Methods, Geostatistical Modeling, and Water Quality Index Ayoub Barkat 1,* , Foued Bouaicha 2 , Oualid Bouteraa 2,3, Tamás Mester 1 , Behnam Ata 4,Dániel Balla 5 , Zakaria Rahal 6 and György Szabó 1 1 Department of Landscape Protection and Environmental Geography, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +36-30-907-5828 (ext. 4032) Citation: Barkat, A.; Bouaicha, F.; Bouteraa, O.; Mester, T.; Ata, B.; Balla, Abstract: This research aims to assess the hydrogeochemical evolution of the groundwater in Oued D.; Rahal, Z.; Szabó, G. Assessment of souf valley for drinking and irrigation purposes. To achieve this, 49 groundwater samples from the Complex Terminal Groundwater complex terminal were examined and treated concurrently with multivariate statistical methods, Aquifer for Different Use of Oued geostatistical modeling and the WQI (water quality index).