Modeling of Groundwater Quality Changes Using Optimized Artificial Neural Network Model (Case Study: Zeidoun plain)

The present study stimulated the groundwater quality parameters of Zeidoun plain including Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR), Electrical Conductivity (EC), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), using ANN and ANN-GA models and in the end compare their results with measured data. The input data for TDS quality parameter consist of Na, EC, Ca, Mg, SO4 and SAR, for SAR including the Na, TDS, Hco3, Ca and Mg and quality parameter of EC contains Ca, Mg, SO4, Na and SAR, gathered from 2011 to 2018.The results showed that in ANN and ANN-GA models, the highest accuracy of SAR simulation in the model with sigmoid tangent function, in EC simulator model, the highest accuracy in ANN and ANN-GA models, respectively, related to logarithm stimulus functions. Sigmoid and tangent is sigmoid. Also in ANN and ANN-GA models, the highest accuracy of TDS simulation was obtained in the model with sigmoid tangent stimulus and sigmoid logarithm, respectively. so that the MAE and RMSE statistics have the minimum and R^2 has the maximum value for the model. In general, according to the obtained results, the accuracy of ANN-GA model is higher than ANN model, to simulate the groundwater quality parameters of Zeidoun plain. Therefore, the use of artificial neural network model along with genetic algorithm is a good tool to simulate high quality groundwater quality parameters, without the need for measurement and laboratory work, which requires high time and cost.