Groundwater Assessment, Modeling, and Management

✍ Scribed by Singh, Vijay P.; Thangarajan, M

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 534
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Your Guide to Effective Groundwater Management

Groundwater Assessment, Modeling, and Management discusses a variety of groundwater problems and outlines the solutions needed to sustain surface and ground water resources on a global scale. Contributors from around the world lend their expertise and provide an international perspective on groundwater management. They address the management of groundwater resources and pollution, waste water treatment methods, and the impact of climate change on groundwater and water availability (specifically in arid and semi-arid regions such as India and Africa). Incorporating management with science and modeling, the book covers all areas of groundwater resource assessment, modeling, and management, and combines hands-on applications with relevant theory.

For Water Resource Managers and Decision Makers

The book describes techniques for the assessment of groundwater potential, pollution, prevention, and remedial measures, and includes a new approach for groundwater modeling based on connections (network theory). Approximately 30 case studies and six hypothetical studies are introduced reflecting a range of themes that include: groundwater basics and the derivation of groundwater flow equations, exploration and assessment, aquifer parameterization, augmentation of aquifer, water and environment, water and agriculture, the role of models and their application, and water management policies and issues. The book describes remote sensing (RS) applications, geographical information systems (GIS), and electrical resistivity methods to delineate groundwater potential zones.

It also takes a look at:

• Inverse modeling (pilot-points method)
• Simulation optimization models
• Radionuclide migration studies through mass transport modeling
• Modeling for mapping groundwater potential
• Modeling for vertical 2-D and 3-D groundwater flow

Groundwater Assessment, Modeling, and Management explores the management of water resources and the impact of climate change on groundwater. Expert contributors provide practical information on hydrologic engineering and groundwater resources management for students, researchers, scientists, and other practicing professionals in environmental engineering, hydrogeology, irrigation, geophysics, and environmental science.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Section I: Groundwater Resources and Assessment
1: Coastal Groundwater Development: Challenges and Opportunities
2: Gangetic Alluvial Plains: Uniqueness of the Aquifer System for Food Security and for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
3: Assessment of Groundwater Resources in Brazil: Current Status of Knowledge
Section II: Exploration
4: An Overview of Six Decades of Research and Evolution in Resistivity Exploration for Groundwater in Hard-Rock Terrain of India 5: Application of Electrical Resistivity Tomography in Delineation of Saltwater and Freshwater Transition Zone: A Case Study in West Coast of Maharashtra, India6: GIS-Based Probabilistic Models as Spatial Prediction Tools for Mapping Regional Groundwater Potential
7: Hydraulic Fracturing from the Groundwater Perspective
Section III: Flow Modeling
8: Significance of Dar Zarrouk Parameters in Groundwater Management and Aquifer Protection
9: Estimation of Stream Conductance
10: Conceptual Understanding and Computational Models of Groundwater Flow in the Indian Subcontinent 11: Simulation Optimization Models for Groundwater Management12: A New Approach for Groundwater Modeling Based on Connections
13: Mathematical Modeling to Evolve Predevelopment Management Schemes: A Case Study in Boro River Valley, Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Africa
14: Tackling Heterogeneity in Groundwater Numerical Modeling: A Comparison of Linear and Inverse Geostatistical Approaches-Example of a Volcanic Aquifer in the East African Rift
Section IV: Transport Modeling
15: Transform Techniques for Solute Transport in Ground Water 16: Precise Hydrogeological Facies Modeling for Vertical 2-D and 3-D Groundwater Flow, Mass Transport, and Heat Transport Simulation17: Simulation of Flow and Transport in Fractured Rocks: An Approach for Practitioners
18: Modeling of Radionuclide Transport in Groundwater
19: Benchmarking Reactive Transport Codes for Subsurface Environmental Problems
Section V: Pollution and Remediation
20: Toward Quantification of Ion Exchange in a Sandstone Aquifer
21: Evolution of Arsenic Contamination Process and Mobilization in Central Gangetic Plain Aquifer System and Its Remedial Measures 22: Fluoride in Groundwater: Mobilization, Trends, and Remediation23: Compound Wells for Skimming Freshwater from Fresh Saline Aquifers
24: An Overview of Electrochemical Processes for Purification of Water Contaminated by Agricultural Activities
25: Fashionable Techniques for Assessment of Groundwater Potential, Pollution, Prevention, and Remedial Measures
Section VI: Management of Water Resources and the Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater
26: Managing Groundwater Resources in a Complex Environment: Challenges and Opportunities

✦ Subjects

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Environmental;Water Supply;Water-supply;Estimates;Groundwater;Quality;Groundwater;Pollution;Measurement;Groundwater flow;Simulation methods;Aquifers;Simulation methods;SCIENCE;Earth Sciences;Geography;SCIENCE;Earth Sciences;Geology