1st Edition
Groundwater Management Practices
Groundwater is an indispensable resource in many parts of the world, where it supports domestic water supply, irrigated agriculture and industry. Its increased, and often intensive, use during the last half century has created problems and raised concerns regarding the potential depletion of local aquifers, water quality degradation and various geologic hazards such as land subsidence and sinkholes. This volume includes contributions by experts from several countries who describe different groundwater management practices in their part of the world and discuss measures and actions in response to the challenges associated with the sustainability of groundwater use and the protection of the groundwater environment, as well as the evolution of legal and institutional framework needed for their implementation. It discusses past and present practices and various aspects of the regulatory and legal framework of groundwater management in Japan, China, India, Iran, Australia, the United States, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland and the European Union, and reviews recent efforts to improve the management of transboundary aquifer resources.
Highlights and common themes of groundwater management practices around the world
Angelos N. Findikakis
Groundwater resources management in Japan
Kenji Jinno and Kuniaki Sato
Groundwater management for sustainable water resources utilization in China
Bingchen Wang, Xilai Zheng, and Guoqing Lin
Groundwater issues and management in the North China Plain
Yangwen Jia
Groundwater management practices and emerging challenges: lessons from a case study in the Karnataka State of South India
Sekhar Mudda, Yusuf Javeed, Soumaya Bandyopadhyay, Sylvian Mangiarotti, and Pierre Mazzega
Groundwater management in Kandi region of Jammu Province, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Vikas Sharma and Uttam C. Sharma
Sustainable water resource management in the foothills of the Siwaliks, Northwest India
Sanjay Arora
Role of groundwater in the Tehran water supply
Hamid R. Jahani
Groundwater in Spain: legal framework and management issues
Jorge Molinero, Emilio Custodio, Andrés Sahuquillo, and Manuel R. Llamas
Groundwater management in Denmark – protection of natural resources
Anders Refsgaard and Susanne Vangsgaard
Management issues for the Edwards Aquifer, Texas, USA
Randy J. Charbeneau and Charles W. Kreitler
Economic benefits of expanded groundwater storage in the Central and West Coast basins of Southern Los Angeles County
David L. Sunding, Stephen F. Hamilton, Newsha K. Ajami
Sustainable management of groundwater resources in parts of arid South Australia
Ian F. Clark and Lynn A. Brake
Groundwater quality management practices
Eduard Hoehn
Protection of groundwater environments
Fritz Stauffer
Impacts of below-ground structures on the groundwater environment and their management
Kuniaki Sato and Takayuki Ueno
Geological hazards due to groundwater pumping and/or artificial recharge
Jiang Li and Zuping Sheng
Groundwater-related laws in Japan
Kuniaki Sato, Katsuhiko Shichinohe, and Takayuki Ueno
Groundwater-related laws, regulations and standards in China
Bingchen Wang, Xilai Zheng, and Guoqing Lin
The EU groundwater regulatory framework
Philippe Quevauviller, Johannes Grath, Andreas Scheidleder, and Balazs Horvath
Groundwater legal framework and management practices in the High Plains aquifer, USA
Marios Sophocleous
UNESCO inventory of transboundary aquifers: managing shared groundwater resources wisely
Alice Aureli
Biography
Kuniaki Sato, Angelos N. Findikakis