Advances in Urban Groundwater and Sustainable Water Resources Management and Planning: Insights for Improved Designs with Nature, Hazards, and Society

Fractured media hydrosystems sources are valuable worldwide for irrigation, water supply, and industrial purposes. Mapping and evaluating intrinsic groundwater vulnerability is a balanced integrative methodology to describe the potential groundwater contamination or pollution. The Geographical Information System (GIS) overlay mapping technique and multi-parametric methodology are largely employed to evaluate vulnerability in groundwater systems. However, the DRASTIC index methodology is often used for regional approaches and is the most recognised for groundwater vulnerability assessment for general purposes. Therefore, several adaptations were proposed, such as the DRASTIC‐Fm methodology focused on fractured rock media. This study proposes an updated multi-parametric DRASTIC-Fm-URBAN methodology’s concept, importance, and applicability, which supports the potential groundwater vulnerability on fractured media assessment for urban areas. This approach is more accurate, particularly on regional to local scales. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was applied to define the weight of each assessment parameter. In addition, the index DISCO-URBAN, SI and GODS were used in the historic springs of the Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia riverside urban area. In fact, coupling DRASTIC-Fm-URBAN and DISCO-URBAN vulnerability indexes are reliable approaches to be included as a tool to develop a robust hydrogeological conceptual site model for urban areas.

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DRASTIC-Fm-URBAN index: an updated and reliable GIS vulnerability mapping for the assessment of fractured rock media in urban areas

Freitas

Meerkhan

Rocha

et al. 2023

Environ Earth Sci

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Water resources management for a sustainable nexus of hydrogeoethics and societal well-being

Abrunhosa,

Chambel,

Peppoloni

et al. 2024

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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Possibilities of Using the Unitization Model in the Development of Transboundary Groundwater Deposits

Golovina

Shchelkonogova

2023

Water

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Groundwater belongs to the category of strategic minerals, along with hydrocarbon resources, so the supply of drinking water will become one of the urgent problems of modern society. The management of groundwater resources and their protection is a very complicated task, especially in border areas where neighboring states jointly exploit aquifers. The problem of transboundary water resources management, in particular groundwater, has been considered at the international level for more than 30 years. However, despite the adoption of a number of conventions, agreements and programs, both at the global and in the format of interstate relations, an understanding for the approach of a universal solution to the transboundary water issue has not yet been formed. An attempt to study the possibilities of applying the principles of unitization on the example of transboundary oil and gas fields in comparison with groundwater cross-border deposits is made in the paper for the first time. As a successful example, the unitization agreement between Norway and the UK for the development of the Frigg field was chosen. It is established that unitization agreements concluded by states in the joint development of transboundary mineral deposits, actively used in regulating the activities of transboundary oil and gas fields, can be used as one of the possible models of international agreements on the extraction of groundwater in transboundary territories.

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Advances in Urban Groundwater and Sustainable Water Resources Management and Planning: Insights for Improved Designs with Nature, Hazards, and Society

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DRASTIC-Fm-URBAN index: an updated and reliable GIS vulnerability mapping for the assessment of fractured rock media in urban areas

DRASTIC-Fm-URBAN index: an updated and reliable GIS vulnerability mapping for the assessment of fractured rock media in urban areas

Water resources management for a sustainable nexus of hydrogeoethics and societal well-being

Possibilities of Using the Unitization Model in the Development of Transboundary Groundwater Deposits

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