Groundwater?from development to management

Kemper, Karin

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“…As the world's largest distributed store of freshwater [1], groundwater supplies approximately half of the total global domestic water demand and is a major supplier of industrial and agricultural demands [2]. However, in many regions of the world, groundwater resources are under intense stress due to salinization, contamination, and rapid groundwater depletion [3,4].…”

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Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data

Yin

Jiao

2017

Geofluids

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Dynamic change of groundwater storage is one of the most important topics in the sustainable management of groundwater resources. Groundwater storage variations are firstly isolated from the terrestrial water storage change using the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS). Two datasets are used: (1) annual groundwater resources and (2) groundwater storage changes estimated from point-based groundwater level data in observation wells. Results show that the match between the GRACE-derived groundwater storage variations and annual water resources variation is not good in six river basins of Northern China. However, it is relatively good between yearly GRACE-derived groundwater storage data and groundwater storage change dataset in Huang-HuaiHai Plain and the Song-Liao Plain. The mean annual depletion rate of groundwater storage in the Northern China was approximately 1.70 billion m 3 yr −1 from 2003 to 2012. In terms of provinces, the yearly depletion rate is higher in Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province) and lowest in Henan province from 2003 to 2012, with the rate of 0.70 and 0.21 cm yr −1 Equivalent Water Height (EWH), respectively. Different land surface models suggest that the patterns from different models almost remain the same, and soil moisture variations are generally bigger than snow water equivalent variations.

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Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data

Yin

Jiao

2017

Geofluids

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“…More than two billion people worldwide depend on groundwater for their daily water supply, and a large proportion of the world's agricultural and industrial water requirements are supplied by groundwater [1]. Due to an increasing demand for groundwater in response to rapidly growing urban, industrial, and agricultural water requirements, several countries, especially those in arid and semi-arid zones, are experiencing water shortages resulting from the imbalance between demand and supply [2].…”

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Identifying Major Factors Affecting Groundwater Change in the North China Plain with Grey Relational Analysis

Xue

Zhang

2014

Water

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Abstract:The North China Plain (NCP) is facing a water crisis under the dual impact of natural and anthropogenic factors. Groundwater levels have declined continuously since 1960, causing a series of environmental problems that have restricted sustainable development in the region. In the present study, we first utilized a previously developed 3D groundwater model to determine changes in groundwater level in the region over the past 50 years . We then applied grey relational analysis (GRA) to identify and ordinate major factors that have contributed to these changes. The results show an overall decreasing trend in groundwater levels in this region over the past 50 years and an increase in the water table depth at a rate of approximately 0.36 m/a. Groundwater exploitation showed the most significant correlation with the groundwater table decline, when compared with other factors including precipitation and river leakage. Therefore, human activities should be considered the primary force driving the groundwater level down. The results of this study have implications for developing criteria that consider changes in both climate and socio-economics. Furthermore, since the NCP is one of the most water-scarce OPEN ACCESSWater 2014, 6 1582 and densely populated regions in the world, the analytical approach used in and the insights gained from this study are of international interest.

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“…This has the main effect on groundwater pollution. In karst, as well as in other settings, the sustainability of groundwater is closely linked with a range of micro-and macro-policy issues influencing land-use and surface water, and represents one of the major challenges in natural resource management (Gunay and Ekmekci, 1997;Kemper, 2004). As it was recently observed, "in developing countries, groundwater scarcity and pollution disproportionately affect the poor because they are often not able to keep up with sinking groundwater levels or to find alternative sources when their groundwater resource becomes polluted" (Kemper, 2004, p. 3).…”

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Natural and anthropogenic hazards in karst areas of Albania

Parise

Qiriazi

Sala³

2004

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.In Albania, about one quarter of the country is occupied by outcroppings of soluble rocks; thus, karst represents an important and typical natural environment. Today karst areas are seriously threatened by a number of hazards, of both natural and anthropogenic origin. Many problems are related to agricultural practices: the use of heavy machinery, ever-increasing in recent years, results at many sites in destruction of the original karst landscapes. Use of pesticides and herbicides, in addition, causes the loss of karst ecosystems of great biological relevance, as has been observed in the Dumre district, where about 80 lakes of karst origin are present in the evaporites of Permian-Triassic age. Agricultural practice performed on slopes with medium to high gradient is a further factor which greatly predispose the slopes to erosion. The cave heritage of Albania (estimated so far in about 1000 caves) is at risk because of the uncontrolled quarrying activities which determine the total or partial destruction of karst caves, including many of naturalistic, archaeological and speleological interest. Many caves have also become sites of illegal disposal of solid and liquid wastes, which causes pollution of the karst ecosystems and of the aquifer therein present, with heavy negative consequences on the quality of water. Even though most of the cases here mentioned are related to anthropogenic activities, the natural hazards, such as subsidence phenomena, floods, and the development of sinkholes, have not to be disregarded.

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Groundwater?from development to management

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Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data

Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data

Identifying Major Factors Affecting Groundwater Change in the North China Plain with Grey Relational Analysis

Natural and anthropogenic hazards in karst areas of Albania

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