Contents: Acknowledgement. List of reviewers. Introduction. I. Groundwater resources and management: 1. Depleting groundwater resources in the great Thar desert of India/B.S. Paliwal and S.C. Paliwal. 2. Groundwater management under hydrogeologic uncertainty in an overexploited aquifer/N. Mylopoulos and P. Sidiropoulos. 3. States of alluvial deposits development and their hydraulic properties/Nagevich P.P. and Chebotareva O.V. 4. Estimation on groundwater resources of the cretaceous system based on the autoCAD technique/L.H. Feng, F.S. Hu and L. Wan. 5. Impact of climatic change on the management of complex systems: the case of the Bolsena lake and its aquifer, Central Italy/Di Matteo Lucio, Dragoni Walter, Giontella Cecilia and Melillo Massimo. 6. Groundwater resources and its management for rational use: Bangladesh perspective/Afia Akhtar. 7. The heterogeneity of water resources in a Karst Peak cluster depression area/F. Guo, G. Jiang and Y. Lin. 8. Two coastal aquifers in South Asia and Managements options/Gunnar Jacks, Mahaad Shammas and Unnikrishnan Warrier. 9. Remote sensing and GIS approach in sustainable development and management of the groundwater resources in semi-arid regions of the Thar desert, NW India/T.S. Sharma and N.K. Kalra. II. Hydrogeological conditions, groundwater assessment and modelling: 10. Perennial alterations of hydrogeological and hydrological conditions in the Ob river basin, Western Siberia, Rossia/V.A. Ligotin and O.G. Savichev. 11. Groundwater renewability in the deep confined aquifer, North China plain/Chen Zongyu, Qi Jixiang, Wei Wen and Wang Ying. 12. Hydrogeological model in a test area of the Alban Hills, Rome, Central Italy/Silvestro Furnari, Lucio Martarelli and Monica Moroni. 13. Assessing and managing the risk of groundwater pollution by nitrates with the precautionary principle/Enrico Cameron, L. Garavaglia, G.F. Peloso, G. Pilla and G. Ciancetti. 14. Integrated approach of hydrogeomorphology and GIS mapping to the evaluation of groundwater resources: an example from the hydromineral system of Caldas Da Cavaca, NW Portugal/J. Teixeira, H.I. Chamine, J. Espinha Marques, A. Gomes, J.M. Carvalho, A. Perez Alberti and F.T. Rocha. 15. Public participation in measuring the rainfall provides adequate variability assessment for estimation/P.D. Sreedevi and Shakeel Ahmed. 16. Aquifer vulnerability assessment of urban areas using a GIS-based cartography: Paranhos groundwater pilot site, Porto, NW Portugal/Maria Jose Afonso, Ana Pires, Helder I. Chamine, Jose M. Marques, Laura Guimaraes, Lucia Guilhermino and Fernando T. Rocha. III. Hydrogeochemistry and contamination of groundwater resources: 17. The age of deep aquifers in Milan province: development of a new tritium--I.E.B. calibration curve/Maurizio Gorla. 18. Geochemistry of mineral water and associated gases from the lotus aquifer, primorye, far east Russia/G.A. Chelnokov, N.A. Kharitonova and Y.A. Taran. 19. Rare earth elements in high pressure CO2 groundwater from volcanic-sedimentary bedrocks of Sikhote-Alin Ridge, Russia/N.A. Kharitonova, G.A. Chelnokov and E.A. Vakh. 20. Groundwater pollution in Gumushacikoy (Amasya) aquifer, Turkey/Arzu Firat Ersoy. 21. Use of water quality index to evaluate the influence of anthropogenic contamination on groundwater chemistry of a shallow aquifer, Loures Valley, Lisbon, Portugal/M.C.R. Silva, M.T.D. Albuquerque and L. Ribeiro. IV. Exploitation of groundwater and recharge: 22. Pattern of seepage from Indira Gandhi Canal and Recharging of groundwater in parts of the command area in Northwestern Rajasthan, India: a geo-electrical resistivity survey/B.S. Paliwal, K.L. Shrivastava, Alka Baghela and Meeta Khilnani. 23. Areal exploitation of groundwater in coastal dunes, Buenos Aires, Argentina/Carretero Silvina and Kruse Eduardo. 24. Change in flow velocity around a well in a porous aquifer after pumping/Paolo Fabbri. 25. Rise in the groundwater level in Northwestern Rajasthan, India/A.K. Shandilya and N. Kumar. 26. Groundwater use in the Carpathian-Balkan region/Zoran Stevanovic. 27. Ensuring sustainable development of groundwater in hard-rock aquifers in India by recharge augmentation through percolation tanks--the role of UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP project 523 "GROWNET"/S.D. Limaye. 28. Groundwater recharge in mountainous terrains--case study from Sudeten mountains in SW Poland/Stasko S., Tarka R., Olichwer T. and Lubezynski M.W. V. Hazardous groundwater conditions: 29. Assessment of hydrogeochemical hazard and risk in the urbanized territories/Galitskaya Irina V., Pozdnyakova Irina A. and Toms Leonid S. 30. Interaction of the surface water with the groundwater in some cities of Northwestern India: the issue becoming a serious geohazard/B.S. Paliwal, Arun Vyas, Satish Kaushik, S.K. Trivedi, P.S. Rathore and H.S. Sisodia. 31. Combating negative impact of green revolution on groundwater, soil and land in Haryana, India/S.K. Lunkad and Anita Sharma.
"The book on "Global Groundwater Resources and Management" has been aimed at the growing recognition of depleting world groundwater resources and the need of a better management system. The issue which has now crossed all the political boundaries is the biggest challenge before the scientific community. A referee system of a very high international standard was adopted to review the papers. Contributors include scientists from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Finland, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Uzbekistan. Reviewers were international recognized subject experts from countries like Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Finland, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan and United Kingdom. The book will be a valuable contribution to the field of Hydrogeology. It will prove to be of immense value to the government organizations engaged in exploration and exploitation of groundwater, water supply schemes and irrigation, non-government organizations (NGOs), universities and colleges, people engaged in planning and policy making, researchers, teachers, students and public at large." (jacket)
