Sustainable Management of Groundwater

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Foster ◽  
John Chilton
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Adaptive Scheme

This chapter first provides a concise account of the basic principles and concepts underlying scientific groundwater management, and it then both summarises the policy approach to developing an adaptive scheme of management and protection for groundwater resources that is appropriately integrated across relevant sectors and assesses the governance needs, roles and planning requirements to implement the selected policy approach.

scholarly journals Proposing the Optimum Withdrawing Scenarios to Provide the Western Coastal Area of Port Said, Egypt, with Sufficient Groundwater with Less Salinity

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 3359
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abdelfattah ◽  
Heba Abdel-Aziz Abu-Bakr ◽  
Ahmed Gaber ◽  
Mohamed H. Geriesh ◽  
Ashraf Y. Elnaggar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seawater Intrusion ◽  
Coastal Aquifer ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Visual Modflow ◽  
Groundwater Abstraction ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Western Area ◽  
Port Said

Recently, groundwater resources in Egypt have become one of the important sources to meet human needs and activities, especially in coastal areas such as the western area of Port Said, where seawater desalination cannot be used due to the problem of oil spill and the reliance upon groundwater resources. Thus, the purpose of the study is the sustainable management of the groundwater resources in the coastal aquifer entailing groundwater abstraction. In this regard, the Visual MODFLOW and SEAWAT codes were used to simulate groundwater flow and seawater intrusion in the study area for 50 years (from 2018 to 2068) to predict the drawdown, as well as the salinity distribution due to the pumping of the wells on the groundwater coastal aquifer based on field investigation data and numerical modelling. Different well scenarios were used, such as the change in well abstraction rate, the different numbers of abstraction wells, the spacing between the abstraction wells and the change in screen depth in abstraction. The recommended scenarios were selected after comparing the predicted drawdown and salinity results for each scenario to minimize the seawater intrusion and preserve these resources from degradation.

Sustainable management of groundwater resources

2008 ◽  
pp. 473-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Guttman ◽  
E. Salameh ◽  
E. Rosenthal ◽  
AR. Tamimi ◽  
A. Flexer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Groundwater Resources

Workshop 7a (synthesis): sustainable groundwater management

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
A. Shady ◽  
O. Varis ◽  
C. Tortajada
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Management ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Sustainable Groundwater Management ◽  
The World

Groundwater, the hidden part of the hydrological cycle, is often overlooked in the freshwater discourse, partly because the damage and changes that human activities cause are not immediately visible. Increasingly across the world, groundwater resources are strained with serious consequences.

DISPOSABLE GROUNDWATER RESOURCES OF RIVER BASINS IN POLAND IN THE LIGHT OF SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Andrzej SADURSKI ◽  
Elzbieta Przytuła
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Ore Bodies ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Water Management Plans ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The term groundwater resources was introduced to hydrogeology from economic geology similarly to the resources of ore bodies almost a hundred years ago. It has been used for the need of physical planning, investment in new water intakes, and water management. Discussion on the groundwater resources started in the past after implementation of new methods of their evaluation, e.g. analytical approaches, and physical and then numerical modelling techniques. The ecological aspects of water demand, indicated in the Water Framework Directive, oblige the EU countries to introduce a new idea for the estimation of groundwater resources. This idea is also presented in the water management plans for river catchment areas. Distribution of available groundwater resources in the country and comparison with the groundwater exploitation is the background of proper, sustainable management of its resources. Available groundwater resources of the country, understood as a total amount of disposable and prospective groundwater resources, is 36.4 million m3/day (as of December 31, 2015), including 21.4 million m3/day of disposable resources, and 15 million m3/day of estimated prospective resources.

Analysing the effectiveness of groundwater regulation: a comparative study of Turkey and California

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammed Yasir Ak ◽  
David Benson ◽  
Karen Scott
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
Groundwater Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Arid Zones ◽  
Groundwater Abstraction ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Agricultural Use ◽  
Semi Arid

<p>Groundwater abstraction has increased significantly around the world in the last three decades, placing a strain on the sustainability of domestic and agricultural use plus negatively impacting the role groundwater plays in water storage in the absence of surface water. While the proportionality of surface water use has decreased as a result, groundwater has expanded its share of freshwater use. Groundwater management challenges are particularly acute in semi-arid zones due to low replenishment rates. Multiple regulatory innovations are consequently emerging in different countries to regulate groundwater usage but comparative analyses of their effectiveness are limited. In addressing this gap, our paper therefore compares the regulatory performance of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Turkey with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in California, two semi-arid zones, as a basis for policy learning. Both legislative measures impose river basin planning to protect groundwater resources and should provide them with strong protection. In analysing the effectiveness of these measures, this paper firstly identifies the key regulatory requirements of each legislative framework regarding groundwater protection. Secondly, it compares the institutional arrangements for implementing them, using specific river basin case studies. Thirdly, it quantifies groundwater use trends in river basins to assess the effectiveness of the WFD and SGMA. Finally, it comparatively discusses outcomes to determine the factors influencing implementation effectiveness, in order to inform future regulatory design.</p>

Easy to say, hard to do: integrated surface water and groundwater management in the Murray–Darling Basin

Water Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ross
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Groundwater Management ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Aquifer Storage ◽  
Surface Water And Groundwater ◽  
Murray Darling Basin

Integrated management of surface water and groundwater can provide efficient and flexible use of water through wet and dry periods, and address the impacts of water use on other users and the environment. It can also help adaptation to climate variation and uncertainty by means of supply diversification, storage and exchange. Integrated water management is affected by surface water and groundwater resources and their connections, water use, infrastructure, governance arrangements and interactions. Although the Murray–Darling Basin is considered to be a leading example of integrated water management, surface water and groundwater resources are generally managed separately. Key reasons for this separation include the historical priority given to surface water development, the relative neglect of groundwater management, shortfalls in information about connections between groundwater and surface water and their impacts, gaps and exemptions in surface water and groundwater use entitlements and rules, coordination problems, and limited stakeholder engagement. Integration of surface water and groundwater management can be improved by the establishment of more comprehensive water use entitlements and rules, with extended carry-over periods and legislated rules for aquifer storage and recovery. Collective surface water and groundwater management offers greater efficiency and better risk management than uncoordinated individual action. There are opportunities for more effective engagement of stakeholders in planning and implementation through decentralized catchment scale organizations.

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