Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2014, 6, 1173-1197 Published Online September 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jwarp http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jwarp.2014.612108 How to cite this paper: Hussien, B.M. and Fayyadh, A.S. (2014) Preferable Districts for Groundwater Exploitation Based on Hydrogeologic Data of Aquifers-West Iraq. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 6, 1173-1197. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jwarp.2014.612108 Preferable Districts for Groundwater Exploitation Based on Hydrogeologic Data of Aquifers-West Iraq Bayan Muhie Hussien, Abed Salih Fayyadh Center of Desert Studies, University of Al-Anbar, Iraq Email: bayan1959 @yahoo.com Received 21 July 2014; revised 15 August 2014; accepted 8 September 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The study examines the hydrogeological conditions and the hydraulic characteristics of the water bearing horizons within the hydrogeologic regime of the study area located west of Iraq to the west of longitude 40°40'. Also the study shed light on the flow behavior regime and its impacts on the groundwater movement, ground water flow velocities (permeability and hydraulic gradients) considering the regional structural phenomena. The Hydrogeological data presented as spatial distribution maps and three dimensional models. The results which were achieved from the field measurements are correlated with the main hydrogeologic control points such as storage and transmissivity coefficients, groundwater depths, aquifers thickness, lateral extensions and ground- water recharge to classify the hydrogeologic districts for development and exploitation. The hy- drogeologic regime of the study area is classified and screened into various aquifers, including Ga’ra, Mullusi, Mullusi-Ubaid, Hartha, Tayarat-Digma (Jeed), Muhaywir-Ubaid and Rattga aquifers. The statistical results of the hydraulic and hydrochemical parameters were examined for ex- plaining the spatial distribution of each parameter within the uppermost aquifers and determin- ing the preference hydrogeologic districts for future groundwater exploitation as hereinafter or- der, Ubaid Mullusi aquifer within district-6, Rattga and Digma-Tayarat aquifer within district-7, Mullusi aquifer within district-2, Hartha aquifer within district-3, Digma-Tayarat aquifer within district-4, Ga’ra aquifer within district-1, Muhaywir-Ubaid aquifer within district-5 and Digma- Tayarat within district-8, respectively. Keywords Hydraulic Parameters, Exploitation, Aquifer, Groundwater Flow, Groundwater Velocity