A system and method for operating a low-yield well. The method starts with a pressure transducer telling a control box that a storage tank is low on water. The controller then activates the well pump, the water then flows up a pipe past a pressure transducer showing the back pressure, through a regulator and into the storage tank. The controller is constantly monitoring the tank level and the back-pressure level to indicate when to turn off the well to either stop from over filling the storage tank, or over pumping the well. The controller makes adjustments dependent on the back pressure (which indicates the level of water left in the well) and determines how long to withdraw water and how long to wait until the water can be withdrawn again. The system prevents pumping the well dry, and keeps the pump and well in good operating condition.

A water storage and management system takes water from a water source, such as captured run-off, and through a piping system, directs a flow of the water into an aquifer for storage and future utilization. Using moisture detectors, the system ascertains the water content of different layers or zones of the aquifer and reports this information to a digital processor. The digital processor may utilize this information to issue instructions to one or more control valves to direct the flow of the water into portions of the aquifer which have additional storage capacity. The digital processor may also instruct a submersible pump to withdraw from the aquifer as desired. This system is utilized in a method of banking groundwater from a remove location. Such groundwater storage may result in receipt of groundwater recharge credits.

A method of designing an optimized seawater pumping apparatus, using a computer in a system in which a seawater pumping apparatus including a pumping pipe and a well disposed to surround a lateral surface of a land-buried portion of the pumping pipe is installed to reduce seawater intrusion in a land in which an aquifer with a seawater-fresh water boundary surface is formed, includes applying an optimization algorithm to initial condition data of the aquifer to generate n decision variable sets of the seawater pumping apparatus, applying an underground water flow model to each of the n decision variable sets to generate n prediction results of change in the seawater-fresh water boundary surface, calculating a performance evaluation value of each of the n prediction results, and selecting a decision variable set having a maximum performance evaluation value, where n is an integer and equal to or greater than 2.

A method for reducing the extent of treatment required for groundwater includes the step of determining one of groundwater flow and groundwater chemistry within at least one of a plurality of fluid zones within a subsurface well having a primary pump positioned at least partially therein. The method also includes modifying fluid dynamics within the subsurface well based on at least one of the groundwater flow and chemistry. The method further includes selectively extracting groundwater from at least one of the plurality of fluid zones with the primary pump. The method also includes removing one or more contaminants from the groundwater with a fluid treatment system. Additionally, the step of determining can include the use of miniaturized technologies, such as miniaturized flow profiling technologies, miniaturized water sampling technologies and miniaturized sensors.

A method for reducing the extent of treatment required for groundwater includes the step of determining one of groundwater flow and groundwater chemistry within at least one of a plurality of fluid zones within a subsurface well having a primary pump positioned at least partially therein. The method also includes modifying fluid dynamics within the subsurface well based on at least one of the groundwater flow and chemistry. The method further includes selectively extracting groundwater from at least one of the plurality of fluid zones with the primary pump. The method also includes removing one or more contaminants from the groundwater with a fluid treatment system. Additionally, the step of determining can include the use of miniaturized technologies, such as miniaturized flow profiling technologies, miniaturized water sampling technologies and miniaturized sensors.

A water level monitoring and reporting system coupled to a pumping system, using a well sensor mote coupled to a flow meter, wherein the mote sends uplinks, with data collected by the flow meter, via LoRaWAN to a gateway to a server and thence to a readable application interface.

A water level monitoring and reporting system coupled to a pumping system, using a well sensor mote coupled to a flow meter, wherein the mote sends uplinks, with data collected by the flow meter, via LoRaWAN to a gateway to a server and thence to a readable application interface.

A water level monitoring and reporting system coupled to a pumping system, using a well sensor mote coupled to a flow meter, wherein the mote sends uplinks, with data collected by the flow meter, via LoRaWAN to a gateway to a server and thence to a readable application interface.

A water level monitoring and reporting system coupled to a pumping system, using a well sensor mote coupled to a flow meter, wherein the mote sends uplinks, with data collected by the flow meter, via LoRaWAN to a gateway to a server and thence to a readable application interface.

There is provided a process and system for treating produced water. The process combines a vacuum tank process, an adsorption-desorption process, a heat-exchanger process, a membrane distillation-crystallization process. Also, the process may involve membrane separation and column distillation processes. The process allows for some level of efficiency with regard to energy consumption and operational and maintenance costs.