Keywords:
Groundwater--Environmental aspects.
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Groundwater--Health aspects.
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Water resources development.
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Sustainable development.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Designed to provide a common platform for sharing knowledge and experience, this book presents state of the art developments in the field of groundwater. Recognizing the importance of integrated water resources management, the text covers technical, environmental, legal, economic, and social aspects of groundwater resources management, contamination, and protection. The multidisciplinary flavor of the chapters and the multinational constellation of authors, make the book an authoritative and comprehensive resource for the diverse problems associated with groundwater resources.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (486 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781134133116
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1446254
DDC:
553.79
Language:
English
Note:
Front cover -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Section I Sustainable groundwater resources assessment and recharge processes -- CHAPTER 1 Assessment of groundwater resources by using a simple hydrogeochemical tool in coastal aquifers of Krishna delta, India -- CHAPTER 2 Groundwater contribution to total runoff using baseflow separation: A case study in southwestern Iran -- CHAPTER 3 Groundwater resources sustainability in Qatar: Problems and perspectives -- CHAPTER 4 Application of resistivity imaging for delineation of aquifer configuration -- CHAPTER 5 Hydrogeologic analysis of Kathajodi river basin, Orissa, India -- CHAPTER 6 Mechanisms and rates of recharge at Timbuktu, Republic of Mali -- CHAPTER 7 Evaluation of natural and artificial recharge using tracers in a semi-arid region of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India -- Section II Water and environment -- CHAPTER 8 Hydrogeochemical studies around the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi, India -- CHAPTER 9 Assessment of the potential hazards of nitrate contamination in surface and groundwater systems in Hooghly district of West Bengal, India -- CHAPTER 10 Pesticides as water pollutants -- CHAPTER 11 Immobilization of coagulant proteins for drinking water treatment -- CHAPTER 12 Assessment of geochemical processes controlling groundwater chemistry in a river basin in Southern India -- Section III Groundwater modeling and its application in aquifer systems -- CHAPTER 13 Numerical analysis of tide-aquifer interaction data for estimating aquifer parameters -- CHAPTER 14 Stochastic modeling of groundwater discharge for hydrological drought forecasting -- CHAPTER 15 Influence of hysteresis in modeling of LNAPL migration through non-homogeneous binary porous media.
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CHAPTER 16 Modelling of density-dependent flow systems: Sensitivity to spatial and temporal discretizations and numerical schemes using SEAWAT 2000 -- CHAPTER 17 Large scale modeling of nitrogen transformation in the unsaturated zone-A case study of Tehran City, Iran -- Section IV Coastal groundwaters and impact of tsunami -- CHAPTER 18 Characterization of groundwaters in Tiruvanmiyur coastal aquifer, Tamil Nadu, India -- CHAPTER 19 Evaluation of the coastal groundwater resources using limited hydrogeological data -- CHAPTER 20 Tsunami impacts on shallow groundwater and associated water supplies on the east coast of Sri Lanka -- CHAPTER 21 Status of a tsunami affected coastal aquifer along the east coast of Sri Lanka -- CHAPTER 22 Interactions between saline and fresh water in coastal region of northwestern Sri Lanka -- CHAPTER 23 Groundwater flow model in a mangrove forest -- Section V Arsenic and fluoride in groundwater -- CHAPTER 24 Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plain -- CHAPTER 25 Initial data on arsenic in groundwater and development of a state action plan, Uttar Pradesh, India -- CHAPTER 26 Arsenic mobilisation in the Holocene flood plains in South-central Bangladesh: Evidences from the hydrogeochemical trends and modeling results -- CHAPTER 27 High fluoride groundwater of Karbi-Anglong district, Assam, Northeastern India: Source characterization -- CHAPTER 28 Rural Latin America-A forgotten part of the global groundwater arsenic problem? -- CHAPTER 29 Global arsenic and antimony flow through coal and their cycling in groundwater environment -- CHAPTER 30 Exploiting precipitation of naturally occurring iron against arsenicosis -- CHAPTER 31 Arsenic contaminated drinking water and nutrition status in Bagahi village, Terai region, Nepal.
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CHAPTER 32 Ensuring arsenic-safe water supply in local communities: Emergent concerns in West Bengal, India -- CHAPTER 33 Role of social factors as determinants for chronic arsenicosis in India -- CHAPTER 34 Low-energy reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for arsenic removal from groundwater -- CHAPTER 35 Bioremoval of arsenic by green alga -- Section VI Groundwater management -- CHAPTER 36 The autonomy of local drinking water institutions in rural Bangladesh -- CHAPTER 37 Management of the Salalah plain aquifer, Oman -- CHAPTER 38 The hidden language of rural water supply programmes -- CHAPTER 39 ''GROWNET'' and its relevance to sustainable groundwater development in western India -- CHAPTER 40 Groundwater management in hard rock areas for sustainable agriculture in Indian subcontinent -- Author index -- Subject Index -- Back cover.
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