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Concepts in Ground Water Management
Author(s) -
Mann John F.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1968.tb03682.x
Subject(s) - groundwater recharge , groundwater , environmental science , control (management) , usability , water resource management , computer science , engineering , aquifer , geotechnical engineering , artificial intelligence , human–computer interaction
The goals of groundwater management are part of a general objective of serving present and future demands for water at minimum cost and acceptable quality. The goals should be practical, with the recognition that almost every use of water results in some biological, chemical, or thermal deterioration. In most basins the goal is continued usability. The trend is toward better control of the amounts and patterns of extractions, augmenting recharge to ground storage, decreasing evapotranspirative waste or outflows which go to waste, control of mineral and thermal pollution, intensifying use of groundwater storage, and avoiding damage due to high water tables or land‐surface subsidence. Management objectives are aided by powerful computer techniques, developed mainly within the last 10 years, which permit the prediction and testing of the effects of many assumptions on the groundwater body.