Groundwater Assessment and Management : A Guidebook for Water Utilities and Municipal Authorities

• Autore: Foster Stephen
• Pubblicazione: London : , : IWA Publishing, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (56 pages)
• Disciplina: 551.49
• Altri autori: GoguRadu
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part A: Groundwater for Urban Water-Supply -- A1 ESSENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES -- Why is groundwater important to water utilities? -- How can groundwater impact water service utilities? -- What data are needed to diagnose groundwater management needs? -- How is private urban waterwell use relevant to water utilities? -- Could water utilities have 'hidden interests' in groundwater management? -- Who has the institutional responsibility for groundwater resources? -- Does your water utility have capacity for groundwater management? -- A2 FORMULATING STRATEGIC ACTIONS -- What actions are needed as regards groundwater resource management? -- What actions are needed as regards groundwater quality protection? -- How can groundwater monitoring be strengthened for adaptive management? -- Part B: Groundwater Hazards for Urban Infrastructure -- B1 CHARACTERISATION OF PROBLEMS -- Why is groundwater important to city infrastructure planning? -- How does urbanisation impact the groundwater regime? -- What data are needed to diagnose subsurface management needs? -- Who has institutional responsibility for urban groundwater resources? -- Can your agency contribute effectively to urban groundwater management? -- B2 ESSENTIAL STEPS FOR INTEGRATED ACTION -- Which procedures can ensure that groundwater considerations are always included in urban planning? -- What types of groundwater information are essential for the urban planning process? -- How should the development of urban subsurface space be administered with regard to groundwater considerations? -- Part C: Examples of Urban Groundwater Management -- C1 BANGKOK (THAILAND) -- Major reduction and redistribution of groundwater abstraction to control land subsidence (data from Buapeng & -- Foster, 2008) -- C2 LIMA (PERU). ; Planned conjunctive use to stabilise the groundwater reserves of a critical aquifer in a hyper-arid setting (data from Foster et al., 2010c) -- C3 HAMBURG (GERMANY) -- Well-managed groundwater resource development with emphasis on monitoring for quality protection (data from Foster et al., 2020b) -- C4 BUCHAREST (ROMANIA) -- Improving understanding of a shallow groundwater system to aid design and operation of subsurface infrastructure (data from Gogu, 2019) -- C5 BEBERIBE (AQUIFER) -- Use of the beberibe aquifer as a strategic water-supply reserve and regulating private groundwater supply (data from Foster et al., 2010a) -- C6 LUSAKA (ZAMBIA) -- Efforts to confront groundwater quality protection and meet pro-poor demand in a fast-growing city (data from Nkhuwa, 2003 -- Kangomba & -- Bãumle, 2013 -- and Foster et al., 2020a) -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Groundwater Assessment and Management
• ISBN: 1-78906-311-6; 1-78906-312-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910584590003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II