M. Karamouz, A. Ahmadi, M. Akhbari ... 676 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (March, 2011) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1439837562 - ISBN-13: 978-1439837566 ...
Increasing demand for water, higher standards
of living, depletion of resources of acceptable quality, and excessive
water pollution due to urban, agricultural, and industrial expansions
have caused intense environmental, social, economic, and political
predicaments. More frequent and severe floods and droughts have changed
the ability and resiliency of water infrastructure systems to operate
and provide services to the public. These concerns and issues have also
changed the way we plan and manage our surface and groundwater
resources. Groundwater Hydrology: Engineering, Planning, and Management presents
a compilation of the state-of-the-art subjects and techniques in the
education and practice of groundwater and describes them in a systematic
and integrated fashion useful for undergraduate and graduate students
and practitioners. The book develops a system view of groundwater
fundamentals and model-making techniques through the application of
science, engineering, planning, and management principles. It discusses
the classical issues in groundwater hydrology and hydraulics followed by
coverage of water quality issues. The authors delineate the process of
analyzing data, identification, and parameter estimation; tools and
model-building techniques and the conjunctive use of surface and
groundwater techniques; aquifer restoration, remediation, and monitoring
techniques; and analysis of risk. They touch on groundwater risk and
disaster management and then explore the impact of climate change on
groundwater and discuss the tools needed for analyzing future data
realization and downscaling large-scale low-resolution data to local
watershed and aquifer scales for impact studies. The combined
coverage of engineering and planning tools and techniques as well as
specific challenges for restoration and remediation of polluted aquifers
sets this book apart. It also introduces basic tools and techniques for
making decisions about and planning for future groundwater development
activities, taking into account regional sustainability issues. An
examination of the interface between groundwater challenges, the book
demonstrates how to apply systems analysis techniques to groundwater
engineering, planning, and management.