Understanding the Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on the Sustainability of Groundwater Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 2588
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluid flow and contaminant transport through surface and subsurface environments; physical, chemical, mathematical, and statistical description and quantification of hydrologic processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Groundwater accounts for as much as 33% of global water withdrawals, with over two billion people entirely dependent on groundwater as their sole source of drinking water.
Although groundwater is renewable, it is vulnerable to anthropogenic activities (e.g., excessive pumping and evaporative losses, wastewater and mine discharges, irrigation return flows), leading to declining surface and groundwater levels, loss of wetlands and ecologic health, and degraded water quality.
Understanding the factors and processes that define and control groundwater circulation and quality due to anthropogenic activities is key to sustainably managing groundwater resources.
This Special Issue will present original, in-depth research papers addressing recent progress in understanding the effect of anthropogenic activities on the sustainability of groundwater resources.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- New methods for estimating groundwater recharge
- Advances in optimizing groundwater management
- Effects of excessive groundwater withdrawals on ecosystems
- Managing the injection of reclaimed water for minimizing groundwater degradation
- Groundwater resource assessment and mitigation in mining areas
- Anthropogenic effects on groundwater circulation and quality
- Remote-sensing methods for improving groundwater management
Prof. Dr. Todd C. Rasmussen
Dr. Zheming Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- groundwater
- sustainable groundwater development
- anthropogenic groundwater impacts
- groundwater optimization management
- groundwater circulation
- ecosystem management
- over-pumping
- groundwater quality
- reclaimed water
- mining
