Contents
- Occurrence of Water Underground
Groundwater & the global water cycle
The natural zonation of water underground
Water pressure, the saturated zone, aquifers, & acquitards
Aquifer properties: effective porosity, permeability, & storage
The geology of groundwater occurrence
- Sources of Groundwater: Recharge processes
Provinance of groundwater
Recharge processes
Movement of water through the unsaturated zone
- Groundwater Movement
“The force that drives the water through the rocks”
Quantifying flow rates; Darcy’s Law Y hydraulic conductivity
Groundwater flow patterns
Quantifying the hydraulic properties of aquifers
- Natural Groundwater quality
How to read a water analysis
Chemical characteristics of natural groundwaters; origins & significance
Displaying & classifying groundwater quality
The evolution of natural groundwater quality
- Groundwater Discharge & Catchment Hydrology
Groundwater discharge features
The role of groundwater in generating surface runoff
Estimating the groundwater component of catchment runoff
Physical controls on groundwater discharge at the catchment scale
- Groundwater & Freshwater Ecosystems
Freshwater ecosystems
Groundwater-fed wetland ecosystems
Fluvial ecosystems & the hyporheic zone
Groundwater ecology
- Groundwater as a Resource
Current resource utilization of groundwater
Constraints on groundwater utility
Methods of groundwater abstraction
Conjunctive use of groundwaters with surface waters
Groundwater as a thermal resource
- Groundwater Geohazards
Geohazards & hydro-geohazards
Natural hydro-geohazards
Hydro-geohazards induced by human activities
- Groundwater Under Threat
Threats to groundwater systems
Depletion of groundwater quantity
Degradation of groundwater quality
- Modeling Groundwater systems
Why simulate groundwater systems?
Conceptual models
Representing the conceptual model mathematically
Ways of doing the sums: solving physically based models
One step beyond: simulating groundwater quality
Groundwater modeling in practice
- Managing Groundwater Systems
Approaches to groundwater resource management
Toward sustainable groundwater development
Groundwater control measures to mitigate geohazards
Preventing groundwater contamination
Remediating contaminated groundwaters |
