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100 1 _aJones, J. Anthony A.
_eeditor.
245 1 0 _aSustaining Groundwater Resources
_h[recurso electrónico] :
_bA Critical Element in the Global Water Crisis /
_cedited by J. Anthony A. Jones.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2011.
300 _aXVI, 228 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aInternational Year of Planet Earth
505 0 _aGroundwater in Peril -- Groundwater and Health: Meeting Unmet Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Karst, Uranium, Gold and Water – Lessons from South Africa for Reconciling Mining Activities and Sustainable Water Use in Semi-arid Karst Areas: A Case Study -- Arsenic Distribution and Geochemistry in Island Groundwater of the Okavango Delta in Botswana -- Sustainability of Groundwater Resources in the North China Plain -- Groundwater Management in a Land Subsidence Area -- Climate Change and Groundwater -- Linking Runoff to Groundwater in Permafrost Terrain -- Geography of the World’s Groundwater: A Hierarchical Approach to Scale-Dependent Zoning -- WHYMAP and the Groundwater Resources Map of the World 1:25,000,000 -- Overview of a Multifaceted Research Program in Bénin, West Africa: An International Year of Planet Earth Groundwater Project -- Groundwater Artificial Recharge Solutions for Integrated Management of Watersheds and Aquifer Systems Under Extreme Drought Scenarios -- Groundwater in the 21st Century – Meeting the Challenges -- Index.
520 _aBurgeoning population and climate change are among the most critical challenges facing the 21st century. Both have critical implications for groundwater resources, especially in many developing countries where resources are already under pressure. Due to low rainfall and high evaporation in parts of the Middle East and North Africa, groundwater is not being renewed, and groundwater laid down up to 10,000 years ago is literally being mined for irrigation, often very inefficiently. Over recent decades, groundwater levels have fallen dramatically in key grain-growing regions like the American Great Plains and the North China Plain. As the population grows and emerging economies like China and India demand more food, especially water intensive meat products, agricultural demand for water is set to increase. The rapid shift of population from the countryside to the cities is also adding to this pressure; most old wells in Beijing are now dry. Pollution from industry, agriculture and shanty towns is destroying many groundwater resources; some could take 50 years to clean up even with strict and immediate controls. This volume looks at the technical, socio-economic and political problems being faced, and at the developments in groundwater science and management that may help create a sustainable future for our planet.
650 0 _aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 _aHydraulic engineering.
650 0 _aPhysical geography.
650 0 _aEnvironmental pollution.
650 1 4 _aEnvironment.
650 2 4 _aWaste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.
650 2 4 _aHydrogeology.
650 2 4 _aPhysical Geography.
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830 0 _aInternational Year of Planet Earth
856 4 0 _zLibro electrónico
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