Challenges and Prospects of Integrated Groundwater Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 4539
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In order to ensure sustainable economic development and alleviate the increasingly tense contradiction between supply and demand of water resources, the exploitation scale of groundwater has expanded rapidly. However, due to the lack of scientific development and utilization planning and dispatching management of water resources, the mode of water use for economic development is misplaced with the carrying capacity of water resources, resulting in groundwater overexploitation and derived eco-environmental problems becoming more and more serious. At present, more than 1.5 billion people in the world rely on groundwater as their main drinking water source. With the development of groundwater pollution from recessive to dominant, from simple pollution to complex pollution, coupled with the continuous decline of groundwater level and the continuous increase in groundwater exploitation, this not only worsens the current situation of water shortages, but also poses a great threat to ecological balance and human health. In view of the problems existing in the utilization of water resources and ecological environment, it is necessary to actively carry out comprehensive groundwater management and pollution control, so as to provide scientific theoretical support for global groundwater utilization management and quality improvement.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish original, high-quality research papers, as well as review articles, to discuss the latest progress in the research of integrated groundwater management: new methods and development of monitoring, experiment and evaluation, including water resource utilization, groundwater quality evaluation, groundwater environmental remediation and ecotoxicity.
The articles published in this Special Issue can expand scientific knowledge for a wide and diverse audience of groundwater and environmental scientists, practitioners, policymakers and non-professional readers.
Prof. Dr. Jianmin Bian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water resources
- groundwater management
- environmental pollution
- water quality evaluation
- environmental remediation
- ecotoxicity
