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Regional Ground‐Water Management
Author(s) -
Helweg Otto J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1978.tb03243.x
Subject(s) - aquifer , resource (disambiguation) , environmental science , investment (military) , groundwater , water resources , quality (philosophy) , water quality , water resource management , computer science , engineering , ecology , computer network , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , epistemology , politics , law , political science , biology
Aquifers are basically water storage reservoirs and need to be used as such to optimally integrate them into the water resource system. They have five special properties that dictate how they should be used to store water. These are size, their response time, the quality of water they hold, the ecological impacts of using them, and the type of investment needed to develop them. To be most effective, all of the available storage of an aquifer should be utilized and the quality of the ground water maintained, but neither of these requirements are totally met and in many areas are dangerously ignored. In order to realize the full potential of the aquifer benefits, regional cooperation or control is necessary.