Assessing and Managing Groundwater in Different Environments

✍ Scribed by Jude Cobbing; Shafick Adams; Ingrid Dennis; Kornelius Riemann

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis, CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping legal, social, organisational, institutional and governance considerations. Groundwater is integral to many human and environmental systems. Indeed, there appears to be a growing realisation that some of the most pressing physical problems in the field of hydrogeology - over-abstraction, salinization or pollution - can only really be solved by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues that takes all other related professions into account. Wh. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover; Table of contents; About the editors; Introduction/setting the scene: 2011 GWD/IAH book intro; 1. Water-resource issues in the United States and the changing focus on groundwater; 2. The challenges of municipal groundwater supply from private land; 3. When are groundwater data enough for decision-making?; 4. Development of emergency water supplies for the drought-impacted southern Cape coastal region of South Africa --
observations while abstracting saline water for desalination; 5. Guidelines for integrated catchment monitoring: ICM mind-map development and example of application. 6. Socio-economic aspects of groundwater demand: Franschhoek case study7. Using numerical modelling to cope with uncertainty in the real world: Examples from various models in the Western Cape; 8. Numerical modelling techniques for fractured aquifers and flooding of mines; 9. Assessing uncertainties in surface-water and groundwater interaction modelling --
a case study from South Africa using the Pitman model; 10. Groundwater extractions in Flanders --
an enforcement review (2005-2009); 11. The impact of climate transitions on the radionuclide transport through a sedimentary aquifer. 12. Identification and management of strategic groundwater bodies for emergency situations in Bratislava District, Slovak Republic13. A model of long-term catchment-scale nitrate transport in a UK Chalk catchment; 14. Hydrogeological study for sustainable water-resource exploitation --
Ibo Island, Mozambique; 15. In situ nitrate removal from groundwater using freely available carbon material at an industrially polluted site; 16. Classification of surface-water --
groundwater interaction of the Mokolo and Lephalala River systems in the Limpopo WMA. 17. Is the Precambrian basement aquifer in Malawi up to the job?18. Preliminary assessment of water-supply availability with regard to potential shale-gas development in the Karoo region of South Africa; 19. Compiling the South African Development Community Hydrogeological Map and Atlas: Opportunities for the future; SERIES IAH-selected papers.
Abstract: This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping legal, social, organisational, institutional and governance considerations. Groundwater is integral to many human and environmental systems. Indeed, there appears to be a growing realisation that some of the most pressing physical problems in the field of hydrogeology - over-abstraction, salinization or pollution - can only really be solved by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues that takes all other related professions into account. Wh