Groundwater Intensive Use: IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 7 - Hardcover

Book 15 of 16: IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology
 
9780415364447: Groundwater Intensive Use: IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 7
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415364442 ISBN 13: 9780415364447
Publisher: CRC Press, 2005

Synopsis

Intensive use of groundwater has resolved the demand for drinking water and, through irrigation, has contributed to the eradication of malnourishment in many developing countries. The spectacular worldwide increase in groundwater use in the last decades, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, has been a silent revolution carried out by millions of small farmers. In some instances, groundwater abstraction has caused problems of quality degradation, excessive drawdown of groundwater levels, land subsidence, reduction of spring and baseflows or degradation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Most of these problems could be anticipated, mitigated, or even avoided with more active water agencies, adequate regulations and users’ participation in management. Groundwater Intensive Use contains a selection of papers presented at a symposium held in December 2002 in Valencia, Spain. It constitutes a step forward in creating a greater worldwide awareness of the relevance of groundwater in water resources policy. The book presents new ideas and accounts of recent advances in technical, economic, legal, administrative and political issues. It addresses groundwater development to ecosystems sustainability, through different or complementary approaches. A wide series of case studies from North and South America, Europe, South Asia and North and Sub-Saharan Africa cover the various issues. These case studies represent countries with a wide diversity of social circumstances, from areas in which development is emerging, to communities with a long history of successful groundwater use.

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About the Author

Andrés Sahuquillo, J. Capilla, Luis Martinez Cortina, X. Sanchez Vila

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Publisher
CRC Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415364442
ISBN 13 
9780415364447
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
410
Editor
Sahuquillo Andrés, Capilla J., Cortina Luis Martinez, Vila X. Sanchez