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.

Angelos N. FindikakisKenji Jinno and Kuniaki SatoBingchen Wang and Xilai Zheng and Guoqing LinYangwen JiaSekhar Muddu and Yusuf Javeed and Soumya Bandyopadhyay and Sylvain Mangiarotti and Pierre MazzegaVikas Sharma and Uttam C. SharmaSanjay AroraHamid R. JahaniJorge Molinero and Emilio Custodio and Andrés Sahuquiilo and Manuel Ramon LlamasAnders Refsgaard and Susanne VangsgaardRandy J. Charbeneau and Charles W. KreitlerDavid L. Sunding and Stephen F. Hamilton and Newsha K. AjamiIan F. Clark and Lynn A. BrakeEduard HoehnFritz StaufferKuniaki Sato and Takayuki UenoJiang Li and Zhuping ShengKuniaki Sato and Katsuhiko Shichinohe and Takayuki UenoBingchen Wang and Xilai Zheng and Guoqing LinPhilippe Quevauviller and Johannes Grath and Andreas Scheidleder and Balazs HorvathMarios SophocleousAlice Aureli

Foreword	p. ix
1 Highlights and common themes of groundwater management practices around the World	p. 1
2 Groundwater resources management in Japan	p. 17
3 Groundwater management for sustainable water resources utilization in China	p. 33
4 Groundwater issues and management in the North China Plain	p. 45
5 Groundwater management practices and emerging challenges: Lessons from a case study in the Karnataka State of South India	p. 57
6 Groundwater management in Kandi region of Jammu Province, Jammu & Kashmir, India	p. 83
7 Sustainable water resource management in the foothills of the Siwaliks, Northwest India	p. 93
8 Role of groundwater in the Tehran water supply	p. 111
9 Groundwater in Spain: Legal framework and management issues	p. 123
10 Groundwater management in Denmark - protection of natural resources	p. 139
11 Management issues for the Edwards Aquifer, Texas (USA)	p. 149
12 Economic benefits of expanded groundwater storage in the Central and West Coast Basins of Southern Los Angeles County	p. 157
13 Sustainable management of groundwater resources in parts of Arid South Australia	p. 179
14 Groundwater quality management practices	p. 193
15 Protection of groundwater environments	p. 205
16 Impacts of below-ground structures on the groundwater environment and their management	p. 221
17 Geological hazards due to groundwater pumping and/or artificial recharge	p. 237
18 Groundwater-related laws in Japan	p. 283
19 Groundwater-related laws, regulations and standards in China	p. 295
20 The EU groundwater regulatory framework	p. 303
21 Groundwater legal framework and management practices in the High Plains aquifer, USA	p. 325
22 UNESCO inventory of transboundary aquifers: managing shared groundwater resources wisely	p. 367
Colour plates	p. 387

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