Emerging Issues in Groundwater Resources
This book discusses how emerging groundwater risks under current and potential climate change conductions reduce available groundwater resources for domestic use, and agriculture and energy production. The topics discussed throughout this book are grouped
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Emerging Issues in Groundwater Resources
Advances in Water Security Series editor Ali Fares, Prairie View, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13753
Ali Fares Editor
Emerging Issues in Groundwater Resources
Editor Ali Fares Prairie View A&M University College of Agriculture and Human Sciences Prairie View, TX, USA
Advances in Water Security ISBN 978-3-319-32006-9 ISBN 978-3-319-32008-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32008-3
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Preface
Groundwater resources are decreasing at alarming rates and face increasing pressure due to climate variability, population pressure, and increases in energy demands. Furthermore, emerging groundwater contamination and pollution risks are seriously reducing available groundwater resources. The topics discussed throughout this book are grouped into five sections: (1) sea level rise, climate change, and food security, (2) emerging contaminants, (3) technologies and decision support systems, (4) surface water-groundwater interactions, and (5) economics, and energy production and development. Sea level rise in coastal areas and food security risks as a result of climate change are discussed in Chaps. 1 through 3. Chapters 4 through 6 cover emerging groundwater contamination issues as a result of hydraulic fracturing for energy production and wastes from pharmaceutical and wastewater treatment plants. Chapters 7 and 8 include different approaches and decision support systems for quantifying groundwater resources. Surface water– groundwater interactions are discussed in Chaps. 9 through 12. Finally, Chaps. 13 and 14 discuss groundwater management approaches for agricultural production and
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