International Journal of Scientific and Technological Research www.iiste.org ISSN 2422-8702 (Online) Vol 3, No.3, 2017 8 | Page www.iiste.org Groundwater Potential Assessment Using Geographic Information System (GIS) Methods in the Province of Batman, Turkey Veysel Suleyman Yavuz (Corresponding author) Department of Civil Engineering, Batman University E-mail: veysel.yavuz84@gmail.com Recep Celik Department of Civil Engineering, Dicle University E-mail: recep.celik@dicle.edu.tr Nizamettin Hamidi Department of Civil Engineering, Dicle University E-mail: nhamidi@dicle.edu.tr Abstract Batman is a fast-growing province which the drinking and irrigation water requirements obtained from the groundwater resources. Assessment of the groundwater potential is a very important. In this study it has been used general information regarding the general geological, meteorological, natural resources, and natural water resources concerning to the province of Batman to find out the groundwater potential zones. The logs of the water wells located within the boundaries of the city center and its districts concerning to the public institutions and individuals were also examined. Static water level, dynamic water level and well yield values were classified and the thematic maps were brung out by modeling the data which was obtained from the water wells using the Arc Info GIS program Geostatistical Analyst tool extension. The groundwater level at the referred city centre and its districts together with the purpose of being able to control in the future, a database includes the thematic maps were created. As a result of these thematic maps hydrogeological assessment was evaluated. As a matter of fact that creating the risk maps and modeling the groundwater potential of Batman have an insurance feature to be optimally used water resources. Thus, it is expected that this study will assist for the next studies. It is thought that taking the groundwater potential of the industrial zones as well as the new residential areas into consideration will be more helpful for the researchers to perform further detailed studies. Keywords: Batman, groundwater, static water level, dynamic water level, well yield, GIS (Geographical Information Systems) 1. Introduction Population growth, industrial development, social, economic and cultural changes depending on natural resources, particularly affect the quality of surface and groundwater in a negative way. Natural resources must be protected against contamination in countries with fast developing and limited economic and technical facilities such as Turkey. In particular the protection of groundwater which makes up less water percentage of the world, it is possible with national and international studies. Equal groundwater depth, equal pH, equal EC, equal hardness and equal sulfate maps were created using GIS in the province of Adana, Turkey (Cobanoglu et al., 2006). Çelik (2007) identified the potential of the groundwater using GIS and he created static water level, dynamic water level and pump efficiency map of the Diyarbakir Plain in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Pirna (2012) studied Sweden 's Gotland Island and conducted by the map on groundwater benefiting using GIS. Ojo et al. (2015) assessed the groundwater potential of the city of Akure in the southwest of Nigeria with GIS using the geomorphic, geologic and geoelectric information of the study area. They obtained the thematic maps as very low, low, medium and high and divided the region of the groundwater potential. Otherwise, Subramani et al. (2005) studied Chittenden basin which placed in India for assessment of the groundwater for drinking