Victor Hugo Rabelo Coelho,Cristiano das Neves Almeida,Uiara Talitta Martins de Araújo,Diego Ferreira Targino,Franklin Mendonça Linhares,Davi de Carvalho Diniz Melo, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, , victor-coelho@hotmail.com
Water scarcity in some regions of the World is a main cause for an increasing of groundwater exploitation. In some regions this type of water resources represents the main source of supply. Groundwater management and planning are necessary to assure water for different uses. This paper presents the results of water table fluctuation monitoring which was carried out with support of 27 shallow wells. Gramame watershed located in the Northwestern coastal region from Brazil was the study area. The research was carried out for a hydrological year, from November 2009 to October 2010. A Geographic Information System was used to support spatial distribution analyses. Three different situations were found in terms of water table fluctuation, depending of the shallow well deep. Results show that for some shallow wells the level just decreased during a year. This set of wells is located in a region where the rainfall was lower than the yearly average rainfall.
Key words: groundwater, quantitative monitoring, shallow wells.