Resource Management

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With rising water demand, declining groundwater levels, and environmental concerns, achieving a sustainable drinking water supply has become a global priority. Managed aquifer recharge has emerged as a cost-effective solution, supported by advances in geochemistry, microbiology, and hydraulics. This project aimed to identify key factors for the successful design, operation, and maintenance of sustainable underground […]

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Public Health Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Safe Drinking Water

Groundwater provides drinking water to more than 10 million Canadians, including more than 80% of rural populations. Ensuring that groundwater is safe for human consumption is a shared responsibility of any scientist or professional engaged in a domestic or municipal groundwater supply. All such individuals should understand the basis for judging the safety of drinking

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Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of Bottled Spring Water in the United States

Bottled spring water is one of the most popular beverages in the world. The reasons for this popularity include its convenience, its wide availability, and its perceived purity. In addition, bottled water produced from different springs contain differing kinds and amounts of dissolved minerals and gases. That, in turn, can produce subtly different flavors in water

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The hidden wealth of nations: the economy of groundwater in an era of climate change

Groundwater is our most important freshwater resource. But the lack of systematic analysis of its economic importance has evaded attention from policymakers and the general public—threatening the resource. Groundwater provides 49 percent of the water withdrawn for domestic use by the global population and around 43 percent of all water withdrawn for irrigation. This report

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Identifying International Legal Trends for Managing Transboundary Groundwater and Aquifers

Humanity is heavily dependent on transboundary groundwater resources and aquifers for its freshwater. As a result, policymakers, groundwater managers, water law professionals, and the public must become more aware about this critical resource to ensure its sustainable use into the future. This book reviews the handful of treaties and informal arrangements implemented by various nations

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Karst: Environment and Management of Aquifers

Karst comprises complex systems of soluble rocks and water forming a surface and underground environment with rich but vulnerable aquifer systems that produce the world’s largest proportion of pristine water. The interactions of soluble rocks and water create landscapes and subsurface forms that are not found in any other rock or aquifer. These features range

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Cross-Border Impacts Related to Transboundary Aquifers: Characterizing Legal Responsibility and Liability

Groundwater recognizes none of the political boundaries that humanity has drawn on maps. As a result, when groundwater traverses borders and frontiers it raises questions of responsibility and liability pertaining to the use, management, exploitation, and administration of cross-border aquifers. This occurs both at the international level where two or more sovereign nations, as well

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Managed Aquifer Recharge: Southern Africa

Key to the African water crisis, often referred to in international forums, is the large spatial and temporal variability of resource availability, the arid climate prevalent in about 60% of the African continent, and the widespread lack of skilled and experienced human resources to manage the irregular availability of water. Provision of sufficient storage capacity

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Land Subsidence and its Mitigation

The unsustainable use of land and water resources is expected to increase in the next few decades, causing many problems including increased land subsidence and the associated environmental impacts. Land subsidence is the loss of land elevation and is most prevalent in coastal and highly urbanized areas where groundwater is extracted from confined aquifers. This

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Hydrogeology and Mineral Resource Development

The hydrogeological setting of a mineral resource development project is often a central component in mine planning, safe mine operations and sound environmental stewardship. This book illustrates many of the considerations involved in and methodologies applied when assessing the impacts of groundwater on mine operations, on mine water supply, on mineral waste management and in

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Groundwater Resource Development

Groundwater withdrawals expanded dramatically during the last half of the 20th century. Approximately half the population of the world depends upon groundwater for its drinking water supply, and groundwater supplies almost half of the water used for irrigation in agricultural areas. This large and expanding use of groundwater is the primary driving force for concerns about

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Groundwater Quality and Examples of Risk Interpretation Procedures

Risk is about events or circumstances that cause problems; thus, risk identification starts with attention to the source of the risk. Once the source is identified, the next step is to determine whether exposure to the risk may harm humans or the environment—and whether that exposure warrants control or management of the risk. The issue

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Groundwater and Hydrothermal Ore Deposits

Many of the world’s most important ore deposits were formed from groundwater, a process that was not well understood until relatively recently. However, advances in hydrogeology have shed light on this phenomenon. Case studies presented in this book profile four such ore deposits: three in sedimentary basins (Mississippi Valley-type, unconformity-type uranium, and stratiform copper) and

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Domestic Wells – Introduction and Overview

This book provides an introduction to domestic wells, including their construction, regulation, vulnerability, protection, and the valuable data they can provide for groundwater research.

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Water Well Record Databases and Their Uses

This book highlights the importance of well record management as a critical component of groundwater and drinking water management programs. The book provides an overview of the history, availability, uses, shortcomings and best practices of these databases, which is useful background for students, educators, researchers, groundwater professionals and managers interested in learning about this topic.

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Groundwater and Petroleum

Most nonexperts do not realize that for every barrel of oil produced today in the USA, oil companies also recover approximately ten barrels of produced water that is highly toxic to human health and the environment. Produced water is toxic because of high salinity and high concentrations of inorganic and organic chemicals and isotopes that

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Urban Groundwater

During the past fifty years, urban groundwater has emerged as one of the world’s pressing issues. Explosive population growth in cities throughout the world has created an inordinate demand for safe groundwater supplies, raising concerns for their long-term sustainability at a time when aquifers are being increasingly degraded by human activity. Cities less reliant on

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Mission: Making Groundwater Understandable

Books about Managing Our Groundwater Resource