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

Groundwater beneath cities is important. Water utilities and private abstractors use is it as a secure source of water-supply and municipal authorities have to cope with it when planning sanitation and using underground space for building and transportation infrastructure, but all too often neither...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : IWA Publishing,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (56 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 &amp
  • 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 &amp
  • Bãumle, 2013
  • and Foster et al., 2020a)
  • References.