Groundwater intensive exploitation and mining in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain: Hydrogeological, environmental, economic and social aspects

Custódio, Emílio; Cabrera, M.C.; Poncela, Roberto Poncela; Puga, Luis-Olavo; Skupien, Elzbieta; Villar, Alberto del

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.038

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“…However, in many regions of the world, groundwater resources are under intense stress due to salinization, contamination, and rapid groundwater depletion [3,4]. Especially in some coastal cities, the situation is getting even worse.…”

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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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“…Water is a scarce commodity in the Canary Islands, and the seasonal nature of tourism results in spikes in water use that strain available resources (Custodio et al (2016). The Canary Islands are volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean located at the same latitude as the Sahara Desert (Custodio et al, 2016). The climate is temperate and dry and marked by natural resource scarcity.…”

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Water management strategies in hotels in arid regions: results and implications from a case study on Gran Canaria island (Spain)

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Moreno-Melgarejo²

2020

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Hotels are water-intensive businesses, and water scarcity presents a pressing problem for managers who rely on an uninterrupted supply of water to meet guests’ needs and maintain profitability. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore strategies that hotel managers used to successfully maintain adequate water supplies in arid regions. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and hotel water usage reports from three hotels in Spanish island of Gran Canaria. This study may contribute to business practice by illuminating processes that hotel managers, employees, guests, and partners, can take to improve environmental performance and align practices with water governance.

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“…This is due to the unavoidable large discharge of groundwater to the sea. Groundwater trading and markets are operating, which currently also incorporate desalinated seawater since the 1960s and reclaimed waste water since the 1970s (MASE 2015;Custodio et al 2016a). The deals in the water markets in Gran Canaria amount to about 25 and 50 M€/year in Tenerife.…”

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Sustainability of intensive groundwater development: experience in Spain

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Sahuquillo

Albiac

2017

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and even affect upcoming human generations. This new dimension, which has economic and sustainability aspects, is not as important for other water resources. Critical flow thresholds have to be considered for groundwater-dependent ecosystems. This is considered from the point of view of water quantity, which is the dominant aspect under arid and semiarid conditions. However, water quality may be as or more important for humans and for nature services, but this needs a separate treatment. The hydrogeological and socioeconomic aspects of aquifer behaviour are presented taking into account the experience drawn from some intensively exploited and economically and socially important aquifers, mostly those in La Mancha, in central Spain, but also other intensively exploited Spanish aquifers. Topdown-down administrative decisions to get a given sustainable have resulted in partial failures, but if action is agreed among stakeholders better outcomes could be achieved. Mixed solutions seem the best approach.

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Groundwater intensive exploitation and mining in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain: Hydrogeological, environmental, economic and social aspects

Cited by 57 publications

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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

Water management strategies in hotels in arid regions: results and implications from a case study on Gran Canaria island (Spain)

Sustainability of intensive groundwater development: experience in Spain

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