groundwater resource management Books and Publications

Groundwater for Sustainable Development: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges

Designed to provide a common platform for sharing knowledge and experience, this book presents state of the art developments in the field of groundwater. Recognizing the importance of integrated water resources management, the text covers technical, environmental, legal, economic, and social aspects of ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Groundwater Fluxes Across Interfaces

Estimates of groundwater recharge and discharge rates are needed at many different scales for many different purposes. These include such tasks as evaluating landslide risks, managing groundwater resources, locating nuclear waste repositories, and estimating global budgets of water and greenhouse gasses. ...

By The National Academies Press (NAP)

Management of Shared Groundwater Resources

Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.e. not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand for water rises, reliance on groundwater increases. In many cases the groundwater underlies boundaries, or is part of a hydraulic system that crosses ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Integrated Water Resources Management in a Changing World

This volume presents a selection of the main contributions made to the international conference on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) entitled ‘Management of Water in a Changing World: Lessons Learnt and Innovative Perspectives’ that was held from 12 to 13 October 2011 in Dresden, Germany. The book ...

By IWA Publishing

Groundwater Management in Asian Cities

resource for industrial development, making better management of groundwater resources essential ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Floods and Droughts

Floods and Droughts: the New Zealand Experiencesummarizes the wealth of observation and analysis of floods and droughts in New Zealand. Chapters are contributed by 20 hydrological scientists and water resources professionals, who have worked on many different aspects of floods and droughts. Some chapters ...

By Water Resources Publications, LLC

Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics

Environmental Systems Engineering and Economics emphasizes the application of optimization, economics, and systems engineering to problems in environmental resources management. This senior level/graduate textbook introduces optimization theory and algorithms that have been successful in resolving water ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Applied Groundwater Studies in Africa: IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology, volume 13

Groundwater is Africa’s most precious natural resource, providing reliable water supplies for many people. Further development of groundwater resources is fundamental to increasing access to safe water across the continent to meet coverage targets and reduce poverty. There is also an increasing interest in the ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

The Water Encyclopedia, Third Edition: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources

“Just do an Internet search.” “It’s on the Internet” These phrases have quickly become a part of the vernacular. The quintessential book of data relating to water, The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources, Third Edition arose from the premise that most of the information provided ...

By Taylor & Francis Group (USA)

Advances in Isotope Hydrology and its Role in Sustainable Water Resources Management - Proceedings of a Symposium held in Vienna, 21-25 May 2007

This is the proceedings of a symposium which was convened with the objectives of: reviewing the state of the art in isotope hydrology, outlining recent developments in the application of isotope techniques to water resources management, and identifying future trends and developments for research and ...

By The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources

Forty percent of the world’s population depends upon increasingly scarce and shared water resources. This situation is critical at both international and national levels not only for socio-economic development, but also for the regional stability. The intensive use of groundwater for irrigation and water ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources

Forty percent of the world’s population depends upon increasingly scarce and shared water resources. This situation is critical at both international and national levels not only for socio-economic development, but also for the regional stability. The intensive use of groundwater for irrigation and water ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping: Practices and Standards

Maps, remote sensing imagery, and geographic information systems (GIS) have become increasingly important in providing essential data for solving problems related to ground water contamination, water resources management, construction, land use, waste management, minerals exploration, transportation ...

By ASTM International

Groundwater

This book is the outcome of the invited topics from various international experts in the field of groundwater resource evaluation, characterization, augmentation, restoration, modeling and management. It comprehensively deals with the resource evaluation through remote sensing (RS) along with GIS, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport

In many parts of the world, groundwater resources are under increasing threat from growing demands, wasteful use, and contamination. To face the challenge, good planning and management practices are needed. A key to the management of groundwater is the ability to model the movement of fluids and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Groundwaters of New Zealand

Groundwaters of New Zealandis the definitive new source for information on the groundwater resources of New Zealand. Written by many of New Zealand’s leading experts, the book covers varied aspects of groundwater research, assessment, use, and management in New ...

By Water Resources Publications, LLC

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