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Groundwater resources : sustainability, management, and restoration /
"Written by professional hydrogeologist Dr. Neven Kresic, Groundwater Resources offers an authoritative, comprehensive treatment of groundwater resources development and management, offering sustainability methods and detailed principles on groundwater protection and restoration. The author rev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2009]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Global freshwater resources and their use : World's water resources Freshwater availability Water use: trends and examples : Water scarcity Water disputes Economics of water Sustainability
- 2. Groundwater system : Definitions Groundwater system geometry Groundwater storage Water budget Groundwater flow Initial and boundary conditions Aquifer types Aquitards Springs Groundwater in coastal areas and brackish groundwater
- 3. Groundwater recharge : Rainfall-runoff-recharge relationship Evapotranspiration Infiltration and water movement through vadose zone Factors influencing groundwater recharge Methods for estimating groundwater recharge
- 4. Climate change : Natural climate cycles Anthropogenic climate change
- 5. Groundwater quality : Natural groundwater constituents Groundwater contamination and contaminants Drinking water standards Fate and transport of contaminants
- 6. Groundwater treatment : Oxidation Clarification Filtration Membrane filtration Carbon adsorption Ion exchange and inorganic adsorption Biological treatment Distillation Disinfection Corrosion control Removal of specific constituents from groundwater Drinking water treatment costs
- 7. Groundwater development : Water wells Subsurface dams Spring development and regulation
- 8. Groundwater management : Concept of groundwater sustainability Regulatory framework Integrated water resources management Monitoring Data management and GIS Protection of groundwater resources Modeling and optimization Artificial aquifer recharge
- 9. Groundwater restoration : Risk assessment remedial investigation and feasibility study Source-zone remediation Dissolved phase (plume) remediation Measuring success of remediation
- [Appendices] A. Values of W(u) for fully penetrating wells in a confined, isotropic aquifer
- B1. Unit conversion table for length, area, and volume B2. Unit conversion table for flow rate B3. Unit conversion table for hydraulic conductivity and transmissivity.