Groundwater Quality Sustainability

Sustainable development requires appropriate knowledge of groundwater functioning. This is implied as a prerequisite to understand: (i) groundwater resources and their availability, and (ii) the dependence between groundwater and the environment. Such awareness could be achieved through understanding of groundwater flow: from local to regional scale. Understanding of groundwater flow at its relevant temporal and spatial scales is a must in studies involving engineering, geography, agriculture, ecology, and in a broader sense, in environmentally related issues. This book can be useful for scientists, researchers, students, engineers, water resources specialists, consultants, officials, government administrators and educators interested in hydrogeology and groundwater (resources, quality, pollution, protection and clean-up), geochemistry, fate and transport and hydrogeochemical modeling, as well as environmental hydrology, groundwater dependent ecosystems, environmental, engineering and technology.