Protection and Usage of Groundwater
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 5840
Special Issue Editors
Interests: groundwater; hydrogeology; water resources; water resource management; environmental impact assessment; hydrologic and water resource modeling and simulation; hydrological data management; integrated water resource management; groundwater engineering; hydrological modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anthropogenic activities lead to the deterioration of groundwater quantity and groundwater chemical status in most parts of the world. Projections of global change show that such pressures on groundwater will even increase, which may intensify conflicts between different stakeholders. Thus, a balance between the protection and usage of groundwater is fundamental to strive for a sustainable development of groundwater and societal wealth.
This Special Issue of Water calls for high-quality scientific papers that deal with innovative aspects in this context. We aim for a broad coverage of topics including protection concepts that relate to well-studied problems such as aquifer depletion or groundwater nitrate concentrations but also address novel issues such as thermal groundwater use or combined impacts of different land uses on groundwater-dependent ecosystems. We are particularly interested in the discussion of protective measures that have been evaluated based on a causal and quantitative link between single or multiple land uses and their impact on groundwater conditions at aquifer scale. The protection approaches should be transferrable to diverse natural conditions and show flexibility for adaptation to different socioeconomic and legal settings. Since protection measures need effective control mechanisms, we also encourage the submission of papers that focus on new groundwater monitoring strategies as well as effective data quality control, visualization, and user availability procedures.
Dr. Hans Kupfersberger
Dr. Janja Vrzel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Groundwater use
- Groundwater protection
- Quantitative and chemical groundwater status
- Groundwater modelling
- Land use (impacts on groundwater)
- Global change
- Groundwater monitoring
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